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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
alienation/eɪliəˈneɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the state or experience of being alienated.
■ Psychiatry a state of depersonalization or loss of identity in which the self seems unreal.
- 2 Theatre an effect, sought by some dramatists, whereby the audience remains objective and does not identify with the actors.
- 3 Law the transfer of the ownership of property rights.
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