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[ noun ] separation resulting from hostility

Synonyms

alienation

Used in print

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

Modern man , as Dietrich_Bonhoeffer has told us , has `` come_of_age '' ; and though this process by_no_means represents an unambiguous gain and is , in_fact , marked by the estrangement from the depths that seems to be the cost of human maturation , it is still a positive step forward ; and those of us who so richly benefit from it should be the last to despise it .

Related terms

isolation estrange

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[ noun ] the feeling of being alienated from other people

Related terms

dislike isolation estrange

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