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alienation

Alienation is the state of a person who has disengaged themselves or have been aliented from the attentions from a person, place, or thing they once enjoyed. (noun)

An example of alienation is when a cheating wife is discovered by her husband, and he can no longer stand to be around her so he files for divorce.

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