See Also: alienation(medicine)
ALIENATION, med(law)
alienation(dictionary)
alienation(encyclopedia)
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Alienation(health)
Social alienation(health)
social alienation(medicine)
FINE FOR ALIENATION(law)
ALIENATION OFFICE, English law(law)

alienation (iou)



alienation noun. LME.
[Old French, or Latin alienatio(n-), formed as ALIENATE verb: see -ATION.]
The act of estranging or state of estrangement in feeling or affection. LME.
alienation of affection(s) US Law transfer of a person's affection from one with rights or claims to it to another held responsible for the estrangement.
Burke They grow every day into alienation from this country. E. Kamenka The philosophico-ethical conceptions that underlie the younger Marx. Chief among these conceptions is that of 'alienation': the notion that in modern capitalistic society man is estranged or alienated from what are properly his functions and creations and that instead of controlling them he is controlled by them.
b. Theatrical. Objectivity of a spectator's reaction, sought by some dramatists. M20.
Loss of mental faculties, insanity. Now usu. more fully mental alienation. LME.
The action of transferring ownership of anything. LME.
J. Bramhall The alienation of Lands to the Church.
b. The state of being held by other than the proper owner. arch. E19.
Diversion of something to a different purpose. L18.
H. Wilson He [Gladstone] was particularly concerned to strengthen the safeguards against 'alienation', that is, diverting to another purpose..moneys that had been specifically voted by Parliament for a particular use.