Alienation Definition
ālyə-nāshən, ālē-ə-
noun
An alienating or being alienated; specif., estrangement or detachment.
Webster's New World
Mental derangement; insanity.
Webster's New World
The act of transferring property or title to it to another.
American Heritage
The act of alienating or the condition of being alienated; estrangement.
Alcoholism often leads to the alienation of family and friends.
American Heritage Medicine
In real property law, the voluntary and absolute transfer of title of possession, by gift, sale, or testamentary instrument, of real property from one to another.
Webster's New World Law
Synonyms:
- conveyancing
- grant
- transferal
- transfer
- conveyance
- assignment
- enfeoffment
- overcompensation
- dividedness
- decompensation
- consignation
- reindoctrination
- nonassent
- loneness
- blame-shifting
Antonyms:
Other Word Forms of Alienation
Noun
Singular:
alienation
Plural:
alienationsOrigin of Alienation
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Old French alienacion, from Latin aliēnātiō.
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