Noun

(en-noun)

The act of alienating.

The alienation of that viewing demographic is a poor business decision.

* {{quote-book, year=1897, author=James D. Richardson, title=A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=That the mode of alienating their lands, the main source of discontent and war, should be so defined and regulated as to obviate imposition and as far as may be practicable controversy concerning the reality and extent of the alienations which are made.}}

The state of being alienated.

* {{quote-book, year=1874, author=Edward Bannerman Ramsay, title=Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I refer to the state of our divisions and alienations of spirit on account of religion.}}

Emotional isolation or dissociation.

* {{quote-book, year=1797, author=An English Lady, title=A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,, chapter=, edition=2nd ed. citation

, passage=But these domestic alienations are not confined to those who once moved in the higher orders of society--the monthly registers announce almost as many divorces as marriages, and the facility of separation has rendered the one little more than a licentious compact, which the other is considered as a means of dissolving.}}

* {{quote-news, year=1992, date=October 2, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=The Road to Overload, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=To watch it even once is to be distracted, but in an evocative and resonant manner--to be drawn away from Benning's travels and alienations and reminded of one's own.}}

Noun

(uncountable) The state of being hostile.

*, II.12:

There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, title= Everton 0-2 Liverpool , passage=But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.}}

* 2013 September 28, (Kenan Malik), " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):

The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.

(countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.