self-estrangedadj.
/ˌsɛlfᵻˈstreɪn(d)ʒd/, /ˌsɛlfɛˈstreɪn(d)ʒd/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfəˈstreɪndʒd/ Chiefly Social Sciences and Philosophy.
Distanced or alienated from one's own nature, feelings, or activities; experiencing or involving self-estrangement. Sometimes also: estranged from others as a result of one's own choices or actions.
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1842 Standard 21 Nov. The defeat of their government shall have..the effect of introducing them to the great family of mankind, from which they have hitherto been self-estranged.
1872 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 6 64 It [sc. the mind] is (a) immediately the true mind, or the morale; (b) self-estranged mind, or culture.
1910 J. B. Baillie tr. G. W. F. Hegel Phenomenol. II. vi. 490 The equilibrium of the whole..rests on the alienation of its opposite. The whole is, therefore, like each particular moment, a self-estranged reality.
1963 Eng. Hist. Rev. 78 411 He [sc. Marx] sees man as essentially the creator of an environment in which he is self-estranged until at last he transcends this condition and comes into full possession of himself.
2011 N.Y. Mag. 16 May 22 Millions of Americans must feel estranged from their own faces. But every self-estranged individual is estranged in his own way.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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