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social alienations

social alienations is the plural of social alienation.

Meaning of social alienation

Noun

social alienation (plural social alienations)

  1. (general) 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
  2. (Hegelian philosophy) 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

Questions about social alienations

What is social alienations the plural of?
Social alienations is the plural of social alienation.

Words near social alienations in the dictionary

  1. sociably
  2. social
  3. social (pragmatic) communication disorder
  4. social action
  5. social alienation
  6. social alienations
  7. social anthropologist
  8. social anthropologists
  9. social anthropology
  10. social anxieties
  11. social anxiety

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