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alienation

noun
  1. The act of estranging or the condition of being estranged: disaffection, estrangement. See love
  2. An interruption in friendly relations: breach, break, disaffection, estrangement, fissure, rent 2, rift, rupture, schism, split. See assemble, help
  3. Psychology. Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely: brainsickness, craziness, dementia, derangement, disturbance, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental illness, psychopathy, unbalance. Psychiatry: mania. Psychology: aberration. See sane
  4. Law. A making over of legal ownership or title: Law: assignment, conveyance, grant, transfer, transferal. See law

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