alienation

noun

• 1the state or experience of being alienated:a sense of alienation from our environment unemployment may generate a sense of political alienation
• (in Marxist theory) a condition of workers in a capitalist economy, resulting from a lack of identity with the products of their labour and a sense of being controlled or exploited.
• Psychiatry a state of depersonalization or loss of identity in which the self seems unreal, thought to be caused by difficulties in relating to society and the resulting prolonged inhibition of emotion.
• (also alienation effect) Theatre an effect, sought by some dramatists, whereby the audience remains objective and does not identify with the actors.

• 2 Law the transfer of the ownership of property rights: most leases contain restrictions against alienation