an·o·mie or an·o·my 
(ănə-mē)
(ănə-mē)n.
1. Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
2. Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals: "We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie and rage" (Charles Krauthammer).
[French, from Greek anomiā, lawlessness, from anomos, lawless : a-, without; see A-1 + nomos, law; see nem- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
a·nomic (ə-nŏmĭk, ə-nōmĭk) adj.