What does estrangement mean?
Definitions for estrangement
es·trange·ment
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word estrangement.
Princeton's WordNet
alienation, estrangementnoun
separation resulting from hostility
alienation, disaffection, estrangementnoun
the feeling of being alienated from other people
Wiktionary
estrangementnoun
The act of estranging; the act of alienating; alienation.
estrangementnoun
The state of being alien; foreign, non-native.
Etymology: estrangement, corresponding to
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Estrangementnoun
Alienation; distance; removal; voluntary abstraction.
Etymology: from estrange.
Desires, by a long estrangement from better things, come at length perfectly to loath, and fly off from them. South.
ChatGPT
estrangement
Estrangement is the state of being separated or disconnected from a person, or previously close relationship, often involving a loss of affection, trust or communication. It can also refer to the feeling of being alienated or isolated from society, from one's own self, or from the experience of a previously familiar situation or environment.
Webster Dictionary
Estrangementnoun
the act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation
Etymology: [Cf. OF. estrangement.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of estrangement in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of estrangement in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of estrangement in a Sentence
They loved each other very much, they had a bunch of kids, but they had big pockets of estrangement between them and pain, and they rendered enormous service to this country because they stuck with what they had in common.
Real religion should be something that liberates men [sic]. But churches don't want free men [sic] who can think for themselves and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.
For some months now, we have witnessed an event which fills us with hope, the process of normalizing relations between two peoples following years of estrangement.
. The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending.
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Translations for estrangement
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- نفورArabic
- отчужденост, отчуждаванеBulgarian
- Verfremdung, EntfremdungGerman
- ניכור, התנכרותHebrew
- отуѓување, отуѓеност, оддалеченост, оддалечувањеMacedonian
- otuđenost, otuđenjeSerbo-Croatian
- віддалення, розрив, відчуженість, розлучення, відчуженняUkrainian
- پریشانUrdu
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