| 单词 | anomie |
| 释义 | anomie (once / 131326 pages) n A person who feels alone and anxious because there doesn't seem to be anyone in charge of keeping order, feels a sense of anomie. Anomie comes from the Greek anomos meaning "lawless," so anomie means a lack of moral standards, or a sense of lawlessness, or sometimes the anxiety that comes from being in a lawless place. In the novel "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, the narrator doesn't react like a normal person. When his mother dies and he is put on trial for murdering a man, he responds in an oddly numb way, expressing a sense of anomie. WORD FAMILYanomie USAGE EXAMPLESBut because of technology anomie, this is changing for the worse. Salon(Nov 25, 2016) “So I am thinking that our retirement plan will address this sense of anomie and worry that we are seeing right now,” Mr. James said. New York Times(Nov 14, 2016) The anomie of suburbia is all in the paint palette of a real-estate brochure washed in sodium light. The New Yorker(Oct 02, 2016) 1n lack of moral standards in a society Syn|Hyper anomy immorality the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct 2n personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation Syn|Hyper anomy isolation a state of separation between persons or groups |
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