What does estrangement mean?

Definitions for estrangement
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. alienation, estrangementnoun

    separation resulting from hostility

  2. alienation, disaffection, estrangementnoun

    the feeling of being alienated from other people

Wiktionary

  1. estrangementnoun

    The act of estranging; the act of alienating; alienation.

  2. estrangementnoun

    The state of being alien; foreign, non-native.

  3. Etymology: estrangement, corresponding to

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Estrangementnoun

    the act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation

  2. Etymology: [Cf. OF. estrangement.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of estrangement in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of estrangement in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of estrangement in a Sentence

  1. Bill Clinton:

    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.

  2. Federico Fellini:

    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.

  3. Pope Francis:

    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.

  4. Sorin Cerin:

    . 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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