alienationa‧li‧en‧a‧tion /ˌeɪliəˈneɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] 
Unemployment may provoke a sense of alienation from society.2when someone becomes less friendly, understanding, or willing to give support as the result of something that happens or is donealienation of the alienation of voters
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Minority students have a sense of alienation from the mostly white teachers.
- the permanent alienation of father from son
- Domination, first by a foreign power and then by an elite, leads to poverty and alienation.
- It is taking audience alienation to fresh new depths.
- Liberation has turned sour producing anomie and alienation, severely undermining any sense of collective responsibility or response.
- The early volumes were not without bitterness and disillusionment, but such a note of alienation was never heard so clearly.
- The release of Humanae Vitae in 1968 exacerbated clerical alienation.
WORD SETS
abdicate, verbaffirmative action, nounage discrimination, nounageism, nounalienation, nounalmshouse, nounbackground, nounbeatnik, nounbeggar, nounbetterment, nounbirthrate, nounbohemian, adjectivebondage, nouncarer, nouncaretaker, nouncase work, nouncaste, nouncity planning, nouncommoner, nounconditioning, nounconsumer society, nounculture, noundisease, noundosser, noundoss house, noundown-and-out, noundownwardly mobile, adjectiveeuthanasia, nounformative, adjectivegenteel, adjectivegentlefolk, noungentleman, noungentlewoman, noungentry, noungeriatric, adjectivegerontology, noungrey, adjectivehermit, nounhierarchy, nounhippie, nounHonourable, adjectiveindependence, nounindustrialism, nouninequality, nouninfrastructure, nouninner city, nouninstitution, nouninstitutionalize, verbintegrate, verbliteracy, nounlower class, nounlow life, nounmatrix, nounmeritocracy, nounmobile, adjectivemores, nounmortality, nounNew Age traveller, nounorder, nounoutreach, nounpatriarchy, nounpecking order, nounpeer pressure, nounpetty bourgeois, adjectiveplebeian, nounpolitics, nounprogress, nounrank, nounreaction, nounrear, verbreceive, verbredneck, nounrevolution, nounsecularism, nounservice, nounsexual, adjectivesister, nounslave, nounslavery, nounsnowbird, nounsocial, adjectivesocial, nounsocialization, nounsocial science, nounsocial studies, nounsocial work, nounsocial worker, nounsociety, nounsocio-, prefixsocioeconomic, adjectivesoup kitchen, nounstratified, adjectivestratum, nounstreet people, nounsubgroup, nounsuburbanite, nounsuburbia, nounsupport group, nountownie, nountown meeting, nountown planning, nountownspeople, nountramp, noununattached, adjectiveuncle, noununconventional, adjectiveunderclass, nounupwardly mobile, adjectivewhite-collar, adjectiveworking class, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Unemployment may provoke a sense of alienation from society.
1the feeling of not being part of society or a groupalienation from Unemployment may provoke a sense of alienation from society. Unemployment may provoke a sense of alienation from society.2when someone becomes less friendly, understanding, or willing to give support as the result of something that happens or is donealienation of the alienation of voters