Definitions for alienation

alienation al·ien·a·tion

Spelling: [eyl-yuh-ney-shuh n, ey-lee-uh-]
IPA: /ˌeɪl yəˈneɪ ʃən, ˌeɪ li ə-/

Alienation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 403 anagrams from letters in alienation (aaeiilnnot).

Definitions for alienation

noun

  1. the act of alienating, or of causing someone to become indifferent or hostile:
  2. the state of being alienated, withdrawn, or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection:
  3. the act of turning away, transferring, or diverting:
  4. Law. a transfer of the title to property by one person to another; conveyance.
  5. Statistics. the lack of correlation in the variation of two measurable variates over a population.

Origin of alienation

1350-1400; Middle English Latin aliēnātiōn- (stem of aliēnātiō), equivalent to aliēnāt(us) (see alienate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for alienation

His widow, in spite of their alienation, mourned long and deeply.

Neither of them took any pains to conceal from others their alienation.

They would, moreover, have prevented the alienation of many of their truest friends.

Poverty, alienation, estrangement, continuously aggravated by racism, overt and institutional.

In both book and movie, his sense of alienation is almost palpable, but only the novel supplies explanations.

But The Dog surpasses simply documenting the alienation endemic in the 21st-century global village.

This kind of thing sits in black American minds and creates a sense of alienation.

Moreover, the continuing antics of Republicans on Capitol Hill has deepened the alienation of Jewish voters.

We read of alienation between Indian Christians and missionaries.

There was evidence in the legal papers that alienation of these farms was not allowed.

Word Value for alienation
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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