alienation

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of alienating or the condition of being alienated; estrangement: Alcoholism often leads to the alienation of family and friends.
2. n. Emotional isolation or dissociation.
3. n. Law The act of transferring property or title to it to another.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated. In law, a transfer of the title to property by one person to another, by conveyance, as distinguished from inheritance. A devise of real property is regarded as an alienation.
2. n. The diversion of lands from ecclesiastical to secular ownership.
3. n. A withdrawing or an estrangement, as of feeling or the affections.
4. n. Deprivation, or partial deprivation, of mental faculties; derangement; insanity.
5. n. The state in which a person has completely forgotten his identity and becomes a new person, alien to his former self. This use of the term was proposed when the described mode of dissolution of personality first attracted attention; but the word having already the recognized technical meaning 1 , this employment of it has been rejected.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of alienating.
2. n. The state of being alienated.
3. n. Emotional isolation or dissociation.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
2. n. (Law) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
3. n. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
4. n. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly
2. n. separation resulting from hostility
3. n. the feeling of being alienated from other people
4. n. (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another