Definition of "estrangement" []

• The act of estranging; the act of alienating; alienation. (noun)
• The state of being alien; foreign, non-native. (noun)

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• "Academics call it estrangement, but it comes down to the same thing."
• "There is some risk of the de-coupling of Turkey, Turkey's estrangement from the West, said Ian Lesser."
• "Rather, an external event forces them to come up with a practical response to their feeling of guilt, real or imagined, and estrangement from the anonymous woman killed in the terror attack."