Anomie

Quick meaning: Anomie is a noun meaning Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.

Meaning

Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.

Example Sentences

No wonder, then, that all of these women are consigned to their lot. What’s the point? From adolescent traumas to adulthood indignities, their anomie has been overdetermined.

This is in line with sociologist Emile Durkheim's seminal study Suicide (1897 [1997]), which argued that "anomie", or normlessness, could explain variations in suicide rates across countries and time.

[T]hey duly make the acquaintance of all the dysfunctional, boorish and anomie-stricken super-rich on board, including a hateful elderly Brit couple with the Churchillian names of Winston and Clementine.

Stories about technology-driven anomie and lives that had become unmoored from meaningful values were thrilling to readers in the 1980s and 1990s, but to be a character in such stories is a different thing.

Word Forms

• anomies
• anomy

Related Words

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