estrangement

Old French estrangement. By surface analysis, estrange +‎ -ment (“act, state”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪsˈtɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt/

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estrangement (countable and uncountable, plural estrangements)

1. The act of estranging; the act of alienating; alienation.
   • 2019 December 18, Stephen Collinson, “A grave day in history: Trump faces impeachment”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The impeachment crisis is also a symptom of a country caught in a massive political estrangement that is tearing apart any sense of common patriotic purpose. It has exposed a political culture in which the facts – in this case, of the President’s actions – are no longer sacrosanct and that has been laced with a fog of misinformation by his allies.

2. The state of being alien; foreign, non-native.

• alienation

• cognitive estrangement

• estrange
• estranged

From estrange +‎ -ment.

estrangement

1. strangely; oddly

• French: étrangement

From Old French estrangement. Synchronically estranger +‎ -ment.

estrangement m (plural estrangemens)

1. estrangement; alienation

estrangement oblique singular, m (oblique plural estrangemenz or estrangementz, nominative singular estrangemenz or estrangementz, nominative plural estrangement)

1. estrangement; alienation