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anomies

anomies is the plural of anomie.

Meaning of anomie

Noun

anomie (countable and uncountable, plural anomies)

  1. Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
    • This is in line with sociologist Emile Durkheim's seminal study Suicide (1897 [1997]), which argued that "anomie", or normlessness, could explain variations in suicide rates across countries and time.2019, Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Andrew Cherlin, Robert Francis, “The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men”, in Journal of Economic Perspectives

Questions about anomies

What is anomies the plural of?
Anomies is the plural of anomie.

Words near anomies in the dictionary

  1. anomers
  2. anomia
  3. anomias
  4. anomic
  5. anomie
  6. anomies
  7. anomiid
  8. anomiids
  9. anomine
  10. anomite
  11. anomites

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