social alienation
social alienation noun: a person's feeling of disconnection and/or isolation from a group – whether friends, family, or wider society – or another individual due to low degree of integration or common values.
Noun
social alienation (plural social alienations)
- a person's feeling of disconnection and/or isolation from a group – whether friends, family, or wider society – or another individual due to low degree of integration or common values
- psychological state and objective process in which the self was a historical and social creation, which becomes alienated from itself via a perceived objective world, but can become de-alienated again when that world is seen as just another aspect of the self-consciousness, which may be achieved by self-sacrifice to the common good
Forms of social alienation
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Questions about social alienation
- What does social alienation mean?
- Social alienation means a person's feeling of disconnection and/or isolation from a group – whether friends, family, or wider society – or another individual due to low degree of integration or common values.
- What part of speech is social alienation?
- Social alienation is a noun.
- What is the plural of social alienation?
- The plural of social alienation is social alienations.
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