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
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Other Word Forms of Alienation

Noun

Singular:
alienation
Plural:
alienations

Origin of Alienation

  • Old French alienacion, from Latin aliēnātiō.

    From Wiktionary

Alienation Sentence Examples

  • The alienation was not, however, for long.

  • The courts pronounced the alienation fines illegal.

  • Up to this time he was entirely ignorant of mathematics, his father having carefully held him aloof from a study which he rightly apprehended would lead to his total alienation from that of medicine.

  • Sin is the contradiction of that purpose, and guilt is alienation from the family.

  • The purpose was reasonable, but it was impossible to draw an ideal line and the result was a general alienation of the press.

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Words Starting With

AALALI

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With A and Ending With N

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