alienation

noun alienations

1. uncountable, usually The act of alienating. The alienation of that viewing demographic is a poor business decision.
2. uncountable, usually The state of being alienated. His alienation from his family means he has nowhere to go at Christmas.

   Similar: estrangement

3. uncountable, usually Emotional isolation or dissociation, as from being separated from social connections or estranged from one's family or community; a feeling of being an outsider. I didn't care about anything back then, not holidays or family or my career, I felt utter alienation from everything around me.
4. uncountable, usually Verfremdungseffekt.
5. uncountable, usually The transfer of property to another person. The most usual and universal method of acquiring a title to real estates is that of alienation, conveyance, or purchase in its limited sense: under which may be comprized any method wherein estates are voluntarily resigned by one man, and accepted by another; whether that be effected by sale, gift,
6. Marxism, uncountable, usually The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes (e.g., under capitalism or feudalism).