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al⋅ien⋅a⋅tion
[eyl-yuh-ney-shuh
n, ey-lee-uh-] 
–noun
| 1. | the act of alienating. |
| 2. | the state of being alienated. |
| 3. | Law. a transfer of the title to property by one person to another; conveyance. |
| 4. | the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection. |
| 5. | Statistics. the lack of correlation in the variation of two measurable variates over a population. |
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| al·ien·a·tion (āl'yə-nā'shən, ā'lē-ə-) n.
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Alienation
Al`ien*a"tion\, n. [F. ali['e]nation, L. alienatio, fr. alienare, fr. alienare. See Alienate.]1. The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated. 2. (Law) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another. 3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. --Bacon. 4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind. Syn: Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See Insanity.
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alienation [(ay-lee-uh-nay-shuhn)]
A feeling of separation or isolation. In social science, alienation is associated with the problems caused by rapid social change, such as industrialization and urbanization (see Industrial Revolution), which has broken down traditional relationships among individuals and groups and the goods and services they produce.
Note: Alienation is most often associated with minorities, the poor, the unemployed, and other groups who have limited power to bring about changes in society.
Note: Marxism holds that workers in capitalist nations are alienated because they have no claim to ownership of the products they make.
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Main Entry: alien·ation
Pronunciation: "A-lE-&-'nA-sh&n, "Al-y&-
Function: noun
1 : a withdrawing or separation of a person or aperson's affections from an object or position of former attachment <alienation … from the values of one's society and family —S. L. Halleck>
2 : a stateof abnormal function; especially : mental derangement : INSANITY
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alienation al·ien·a·tion (āl'yə-nā'shən, ā'lē-ə-)
n.
A state of estrangement between the self and the objective world or between different parts of the personality.
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