estrangement
nounUS /ɪsˈtɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt/
Etymology Old French estrangement. By surface analysis, estrange + -ment (“act, state”).
1
The act of estranging; the act of alienating; alienation.
- The impeachment crisis is also a symptom of a country caught in a massive political estrangement that is tearing apart any sense of common patriotic purpose. It has exposed a political culture in which the facts – in this case, of the President’s actions – are no longer sacrosanct and that has been laced with a fog of misinformation by his allies.2019 December 18, Stephen Collinson, “A grave day in history: Trump faces impeachment”, in CNN:
2
The state of being alien; foreign, non-native.
- Synonyms
- alienation
- Derived terms
- cognitive estrangement