— alienative , adj.
/ayl'yeuh nay"sheuhn, ay'lee euh-/ , n.
1. the act of alienating.
2. the state of being alienated.
3. Law. a transfer of the title to property by one person to another; conveyance.
4. the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection.
5. Statistics. the lack of correlation in the variation of two measurable variates over a population.
[ 1350-1400; ME alienation- (s. of alienatio ), equiv. to alienat ( us ) (see ALIENATE) + -ion- -ION ]