Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged, in any sense of that word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of estranging; the act of alienating; alienation.
  • noun The state of being alien; foreign, non-native.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the feeling of being alienated from other people
  • noun separation resulting from hostility

Etymologies

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Old French estrangement, corresponding to estrange +‎ -ment (“act, state”)

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Examples

  • Academics call it estrangement, but it comes down to the same thing.

    MIND MELD: What Was the Last SF/F Book That Surprised You? 2009

  • There is some risk of the de-coupling of Turkey, Turkey's estrangement from the West, said Ian Lesser.

    Recent Study Shows Turkey Turning Away from West 2010

  • Rather, an external event forces them to come up with a practical response to their feeling of guilt, real or imagined, and estrangement from the anonymous woman killed in the terror attack.

    The Passion Play of Death by Todd Hasak-Lowy 2010

  • It aimed to restore to the historical record the contributions made by the Resistance generation to the Greek nation, after decades of partisan vilification and estrangement from the polity.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Note 56: Possible causes for estrangement from the Resistance movement may include unpopular sentences handed down by the partisan military or the popular courts; excessive taxes on landed gentry; political pressure; violence perpetrated by KKE against collaborators and their families, especially after the December Events of 1944 and under the banner of 'revolutionary violence'. back

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • In Romantic phonology, by contrast, estrangement is retained within: the most venturesome wording latently othered to itself by way of phonemic contingency.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • Mediation is increasingly being recommended by lawyers and judges to families for whom a temporary stalemate or long-term estrangement has morphed into a full-blown crisis, often triggered by parental disability.

    Mediators increasingly try to help families resolve conflicts over aging parents Sandra G. Boodman 2010

  • Mediation is increasingly being recommended by lawyers and judges to families for whom a temporary stalemate or long-term estrangement has morphed into a full-blown crisis, often triggered by parental disability.

    Mediators increasingly try to help families resolve conflicts over aging parents Sandra G. Boodman 2010

  • There are many surrealist, experimentalist, metafictional, slipstream or simply unclassifiable modes of strange fiction -- some published as SF, some as Fantasy and some as Horror -- that maintain estrangement by worldbreaking rather than dreambuilding, with many of the novels of Philip K. Dick being prime examples.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • There are many surrealist, experimentalist, metafictional, slipstream or simply unclassifiable modes of strange fiction -- some published as SF, some as Fantasy and some as Horror -- that maintain estrangement by worldbreaking rather than dreambuilding, with many of the novels of Philip K. Dick being prime examples.

    The Aesthetics of Fat Hal Duncan 2007

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