alienation

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of alienating. uncountable,usually
    — The alienation of that viewing demographic is a poor business decision.
  2. The state of being alienated. uncountable,usually
    — His alienation from his family means he has nowhere to go at Christmas.
  3. Emotional isolation or dissociation, as from being separated from social connections or estranged from one's family or community; a feeling of being an outsider. uncountable,usually
    — I didn't care about anything back then, not holidays or family or my career, I felt utter alienation from everything around me.
  4. Verfremdungseffekt. uncountable,usually
  5. The transfer of property to another person. uncountable,usually
    — The most usual and universal method of acquiring a title to real estates is that of alienation, conveyance, or purchase in its limited sense: under which may be comprized any method wherein estates are voluntarily resigned by one man, and accepted by another; whether that be effected by sale, gift, marriage settlement, devise, or other transmission of property by the mutual consent of the parties.
  6. 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 (e.g., under capitalism or feudalism). Marxism,uncountable,usually

词形变化

alienations plural

词源

From Middle English alienacioun, borrowed from Old French alienacion, itself borrowed from Latin aliēnātiōn(em).
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