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Verb
/ˈālēəˌnāt/,/ˈālyə-/,
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alienating, present participle; alienated, past tense; alienated, past participle; alienates, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Cause (someone) to feel isolated or estranged
    • - an urban environment that would alienate its inhabitants
    • - an alienated angst-ridden 22-year-old
  2. Cause (someone) to become unsympathetic or hostile
    • - the association does not wish to alienate its members
  3. Transfer ownership of (property rights) to another person or group

  1. estrange: arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
  2. alien: transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
  3. make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated; "the boring work alienated his employees"
  4. (alienated) socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"
  5. (alienated) caused to be unloved
  6. (alienating) causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden alienating aloofness"
  7. (Alienated (Eureka)) The following is a list of episodes for the American science fiction drama Eureka. In addition to the regularly televised episodes, there is a short webisode series called "Hide and Seek", which is available on Syfy's Eureka homepage.
  8. (Alienated (TV series)) Alienated is a Canadian science fiction TV series filmed and set in Victoria, British Columbia. The series premiered 8 July 2003 on Space and lasted for two seasons.
  9. A stranger; an alien; To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of; To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean; Estranged; withdrawn in ...
  10. (alienated) by his gruff manner.
  11. (Alienating) In family law, the actions or statements of one parent which tend to sever, damage or harm his or her child's relationship with or affections for the other parent.
  12. (alienation) the Marxist concept that referred to the ‘separation’ of people from control over many material and social aspects of their lives. Based on the central accumulation of capital, alienation is seen as the basis of degraded conditions of life under capitalism.
  13. (alienation) A sense of personal powerlessness which may include a feeling of estrangement from government and society.
  14. (ALIENATION) (aliénation, Entäusserung). An ideological concept used by Marx in his Early Works (q.v.) and regarded by the partisans of these works as the key concept of Marxism. ...
  15. (ALIENATION) 1. The process or result of transforming the products of human activity (that is, the products of labor, social and political relations, morality, and other forms of social consciousness) into something independent of humanity and alien to it. ...
  16. (ALIENATION) A separation of individuals from control and direction of their social life. The term was used widely in German philosophy in the 18th and 19th centuries, but it has become important for sociology through the ideas of Karl Marx (1818-1883). ...
  17. (ALIENATION) Audiences are constantly reminded that they are watching "make-believe".
  18. (ALIENATION) When one person willingly transfers property to someone else.
  19. (Alienation (4)) State of affairs that exists when one is a stranger in regard to someone else. It points to the wall that comes up between people to separate them.
  20. (Alienation) A core concept in critical theory is alienation, a condition of existing on the outside, in estrangement from a community or nature or even one’s self.
  21. (Alienation) Class struggle leads to alienation as workers are deskilled in the industrial/capitalist mass production of items they might not use (unlike pre-industrial society where home and workplace were one)
  22. (Alienation) Communist term for the characteristic dissociation of wage laborers (proletarians) both from the product of their labor (which the capitalist owner of the means and forces of production expropriates) and the labor process (which the capitalist owner controls and dictates) under the ...
  23. (Alienation) Forced separation. In economics, the historical process of distancing the worker from his/her product.
  24. (Alienation) Not at any time during the said term to assign, underlet or part with possession of part only of the demised premises.  May assign or sublet the whole of the demised premises subject to landlords consent (consent not to be unreasonably withheld). ...
  25. (Alienation) Provisions for assigning, subletting and sharing possession of your lease are essential for business flexibility. Resist landlord restrictions as far as possible. ...