alienation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another

   The power of alienation is an essential ingredient of ownership.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of alienating.

   The alienation of that viewing demographic is a poor business decision.

3. 3
   noun

   The state of being alienated.

   I refer to the state of our divisions and alienations of spirit on account of religion.

4. 4
   noun

   Emotional isolation or dissociation.

   But these domestic alienations are not confined to those who once moved in the higher orders of society--the monthly registers announce almost as many divorces as marriages, and the facility of separation has rendered the one little more than a licentious compact, which the other is considered as a means of dissolving.

From Middle English alienacioun, borrowed from Old French alienacion, itself borrowed from Latin aliēnātiōnem.

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