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Alienate vs Homesick - What's the difference?

alienate | homesick |

As adjectives the difference between alienate and homesick

is that alienate is estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from while homesick is one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.

As a noun alienate

is (obsolete) a stranger; an alien.

As a verb alienate

is to convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

alienate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from .
    • O alienate from God''. (John Milton). ''Paradise Lost line 4643.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.

    • Verb

    (alienat)
  • To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
  • To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean.
  • * (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay):
    • The errors which alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
  • * (rfdate) (Isaac Taylor):
    • The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.

    Usage notes

    Alienate'' is largely synonymous with estrange. However, ''alienate'' is used primarily to refer to driving off (“he ''alienated'' her with his atrocious behavior”) or to offend a group (“the imprudent remarks ''alienated'' the urban demographic”), while ''estrange is used rather to mean “cut off relations”, particularly in a family setting.

    Synonyms

    * (estrange) estrange, antagonize, isolate

    References

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    homesick

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.

    • Derived terms

    * homesickness