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Meaning of social alienation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. a person's feeling of disconnection and/or isolation from a groupwhether friends, family, or wider society – or another individual due to low degree of integration or common values
  2. psychological state and objective process in which the self was a historical and social creation, which becomes alienated from itself via a perceived objective world, but can become de-alienated again when that world is seen as just another aspect of the self-consciousness, which may be achieved by self-sacrifice to the common good

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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