Meaning

The act of alienating..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of alienating.
2. The state of being alienated.
3. Emotional isolation or dissociation; a feeling of disconnection or of being an outsider.
4. (theater) Verfremdungseffekt.
5. (property law) The transfer of property to another person.
6. (Marxism) 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.

Example Sentences

The alienation of that viewing demographic is a poor business decision.

That the mode of alienating their lands, the main source of discontent and war, should be so defined and regulated as to obviate imposition and as far as may be practicable controversy concerning the reality and extent of the alienations which are made.

Wearing an Audie Murphy black jacket, playing a Chuck Berry guitar, and performing his electrified alienation with passionate indifference, Dylan assassinated the audience.

His alienation from his family means he has nowhere to go at Christmas.

I refer to the state of our divisions and alienations of spirit on account of religion.

As Hegel showed, time is the necessary alienation, the terrain where the subject realizes himself by losing himself, becomes other in order to become truly himself. In total contrast, the current form of alienation is imposed on the producers of an estranged present. In this spatial alienation, the society that radically separates the subject from the activity it steals from him is in reality separating him from his own time.

My alienation was so complete back then that I was withdrawn and distant from everyone I knew.

But these domestic alienations are not confined to those who once moved in the higher orders of society--the monthly registers announce almost as many divorces as marriages, and the facility of separation has rendered the one little more than a licentious compact, which the other is considered as a means of dissolving.

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• alienations

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