Alienation Synonyms and Antonyms

ālyə-nāshən, ālē-ə-
The act of estranging or the condition of being estranged
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. estrangement
  2. disaffection
  3. blame-shifting
  4. enfeoffment
  5. loneness
  6. nonassent
  7. reindoctrination
Antonyms:
  1. friendliness
  2. charm
  3. endearment
An interruption in friendly relations
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. disaffection
  2. estrangement
  3. breach
  4. rupture
  5. withdrawal
  6. isolation
  7. break
  8. separation
  9. deflection
  10. variance
  11. coolness
  12. fissure
  13. rent
  14. falling-out
  15. rift
  16. weaning away
  17. disengagement
  18. division
  19. schism
  20. split
Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. brainsickness
  2. craziness
  3. dementia
  4. derangement
  5. disturbance
  6. insaneness
  7. insanity
  8. lunacy
  9. madness
  10. mental illness
  11. psychopathy
  12. unbalance
  13. mania
  14. aberration
  15. decompensation
  16. dividedness
  17. overcompensation
A making over of legal ownership or title
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. assignment
  2. conveyance
  3. grant
  4. transfer
  5. transferal
  6. conveyancing
  7. consignation

Words Related to Alienation

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Alienation Sentence Examples

  • The alienation was not, however, for long.

  • 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.

  • Sin is the contradiction of that purpose, and guilt is alienation from the family.

  • The purpose was reasonable, but it was impossible to draw an ideal line and the result was a general alienation of the press.

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