anomie
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əˌmi noun Sociology.
a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
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| —n | |
| sociol lack of social or moral standards in an individual or society | |
| [from Greek anomia lawlessness, from | |
| anomy or anomy | |
| —n | |
| [from Greek anomia lawlessness, from | |
| anomic or anomy | |
| —adj | |
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Anomie
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Word Origin & History
anomie
1590s, anomy, "disregard of law," from Gk. a-, privative prefix, "without" + nomos "law" (see numismatics). The modern use, with Fr. spelling (from Durkheim's "Suicide," 1897), is first attested in English 1933 and means "absence of accepted social values."
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Example sentences
Gardens street while her neighbors averted their eyes and failed to call the police, became a national symbol of urban anomie.
Americans, in other words, aren't exactly suffering from anomie.
The breakdown of personal relationships has been a major cause of depression and anomie among boomers.
They come before abstraction, atonality, anomie and the cult of difficulty.
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