sense of alienation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandalienation
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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alienation
noun[U]
uk/ˌeɪ.li.əˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˌeɪ.li.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
the feeling that you have no connection with the people around you or that you are not part of ...
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(Definition ofsenseandalienationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thissenseofalienationand resentment is bound up partly in a strong ethnic identity.
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Hissenseofalienationis emphasised by the overwrought music, with its jagged melisma on the word 'rainbow'.
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This independence may in turn have been related to a more generalsenseofalienationfrom the society in which she lived.
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Both groups have cause to express asenseofalienationfrom land and from language.
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Kierkegaard himself was certainly no less troubled by hissenseofalienationfrom the world.
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Like modern vandals and graffiti scrawlers who deface the property of more affluent people and institutions, they may have been expressing asenseofalienation, frustration, or lack of power.
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They have been gravely disenchanted, and now have asenseofalienationfrom our constitutional institutions.
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Is it not likely to lead to a lifetime of hostility, and asenseofalienationfrom the democratic process?
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More importantly, it creates asenseofalienation, in both directions.
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Unless that disillusionment andsenseofalienationis tackled fundamentally, the results will be dangerous and even unpredictable.
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Unemployment creates asenseofalienationamong people who have been on the dole for so long.
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Theirsenseofalienationand hostility is increasing.
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It is asenseofalienationand a sense that personal and political freedom is steadily diminishing.
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We are contending, therefore, with a profoundsenseofalienationby people throughout the world, but particularly in the advanced social democracies.
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The dangers of a high degree of young people with asenseofalienationfrom their community is, in this case, much lower.
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Who can blame them for reacting with bitterness and asenseofalienationto this perpetual stop and search?
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It is vital that thesenseofalienationshould be removed.
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This hurts the weak, curtails efficiency, checks economic development and sharpens the public'ssenseofalienationfrom the government.
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It is our view that thesenseofalienationshould be removed.
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