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Another word for alienation

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alienation

n.

estrangement, disaffection, withdrawal, isolation, separation, deflection, variance, coolness, breach, rupture, falling out, weaning away, disengagement, division.

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Another word for alienation

noun

The act of estranging or the condition of being estranged:
disaffection, estrangement. See love
An interruption in friendly relations:
breach, break, disaffection, estrangement, fissure, rent², rift, rupture, schism, split. See assemble, help
(Psychology)
Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely:
brainsickness, craziness, dementia, derangement, disturbance, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental illness, psychopathy, unbalance. (Psychiatry) mania. (Psychology) aberration. See sane
(Law)
A making over of legal ownership or title:
(Law) assignment, conveyance, grant, transfer, transferal. See law

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The courts pronounced the alienation fines illegal.
Up to this time he was entirely ignorant of mathematics, his father having carefully held him aloof from a study which he rightly apprehended would lead to his total alienation from that of medicine.
The alienation was not, however, for long.
The purpose was reasonable, but it was impossible to draw an ideal line and the result was a general alienation of the press.
Sin is the contradiction of that purpose, and guilt is alienation from the family.

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