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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.

See alienation in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an alienating or being alienated; specif., estrangement or detachment
mental derangement; insanity

See alienation in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(ālˌyə-nāˈshən, āˌlē-ə-)

noun

The act of alienating or the condition of being alienated; estrangement: Alcoholism often leads to the alienation of family and friends.
Emotional isolation or dissociation.
Law The act of transferring property or title to it to another.

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