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[ adjective ] socially disoriented

Examples

"anomic loners musing over their fate" "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"

Used in print

(Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)

If the inner functions of religion are performed , the individual is a composed , ordered , motivated , and emotionally secure associate ; he is not greatly frustrated , and he is not anomic ; he is better fitted to perform his social life among his fellows .

Related terms

unoriented

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