anomie

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  1. noun Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
  2. noun Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals: "We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie and rage” (Charles Krauthammer).

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  • Where Mendes's earlier film about suburban anomie-1999's overrated —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • Community structural instability, anomie, imitation and adolescent suicidal behavior. —  Blogrunner
  • Julia Wallace in the Voice: "Such an anomie-filled nothing of a movie that it wouldn't even be a pleasure to savage it." —  GreenCine Daily
  • "I've always felt that the people who describe Antonioni's movies as being about ennui, anomie, and alienation are ... not wrong, exactly, but largely missing the point," writes —  GreenCine Daily
  • Patty Hearst became one of the indelible symbols of 1970s America-an era suffused with confusion, anomie, and a vague sense of dissolution and decline, the heady promise of the —  The Chicago Blog
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  1. French, from Greek anomiā, lawlessness, from anomos, lawless : a-, without; see a-1 + nomos, law; see nem- in Indo-European roots.
 

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