alienationnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌeɪ.li.əˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˌeɪ.li.əˈneɪ.ʃən/alienation noun [ U ] (SEPARATION)
the feeling that you have no connection with the people around you:
Depressed people frequently feel a sense of alienation from those around them.
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
- cognitive psychology
- commit
- committal
- Freudian
- gestalt
- id
- inkblot test
- Jungian
- Oedipal
- psych
- psycho
- psychoanalyse
- psychological
- repression
- shock therapy
- shrink
- superego
- trance
- transference
- word association
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alienation noun [ U ] (LOSS OF SUPPORT)
the act of making someone stop supporting and agreeing with you:
This short-sighted alienation of their own supporters may lose them the election.
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Excluding
- acid-free
- alienate
- apart
- bar
- barring
- cut
- discount
- exclude
- excluding
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusively
- freeze sb out
- hold
- otherwise
- out of it idiom
- outside
- present
- present company excepted idiom
- send
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