ALIENATIONS Synonyms

• a failure to perform some promised act or obligation

• an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

• a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

• make an opening or gap in

• an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

• opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

• a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests

• an incompatibility of dates or events

• opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)

• a disagreement or argument about something important

• be in conflict

• go against, as of rules and laws

• avoiding emotional involvement

• the act of releasing from an attachment or connection

• the state of being isolated or detached

• a small unit of troops of special composition

• coming apart

• the quality of being unlike or dissimilar

• a variation that deviates from the standard or norm

• a disagreement or argument about something important

• a significant change

• the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend

• the feeling of being alienated from other people

• disloyalty to the government or to established authority

• a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

• a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

• the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing

• state of being disconnected

• an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)

• the act of breaking a connection

• a harsh mixture of sounds

• strife resulting from a lack of agreement

• lack of agreement or harmony

• disagreement among those expected to cooperate

• a harsh mixture of sounds

• strife resulting from a lack of agreement

• be different from one another

• the act of releasing from an attachment or connection

• to break off a military action with an enemy

• disagreement among those expected to cooperate

• a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

• the termination or destruction of union

• an army unit large enough to sustain combat

• one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole

• the act or process of dividing

• an administrative unit in government or business

• discord that splits a group

• a league ranked by quality

• (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

• (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

• a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

• a group of ships of similar type

• an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

• the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

• separation resulting from hostility

• the feeling of being alienated from other people

• the state of being excluded

• the state of being excommunicated

• a deliberate act of omission

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• The quality of being exclusive.

• a state of separation between persons or groups

• a feeling of being disliked and alone

• the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it

• a country's withdrawal from international politics

• state of being torn or burst open

• a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

• the act of making a sudden noisy break

• separate or cause to separate abruptly

• (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes

• a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups

• the act of segregating or sequestering