Alienation

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.