the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved.
“unemployment may generate a sense of political alienation”
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isolation
detachment
estrangement
distance
separation
severance
parting
division
divorce
cutting off
turning away
withdrawal
variance
difference
schism

loss or lack of sympathy; estrangement.
“public alienation from bureaucracy”
(in Marxist theory) a condition of workers in a capitalist economy, resulting from a lack of identity with the products of their labor and a sense of being controlled or exploited.
Psychiatry
a state of depersonalization or loss of identity in which the self seems unreal, thought to be caused by difficulties in relating to society and the resulting prolonged inhibition of emotion.
an effect, sought by some dramatists, whereby the audience remains objective and does not identify with the actors.
noun: alienation effect; plural noun: alienation effects
Law
the transfer of the ownership of property rights