estranging
Creating emotional distance
Estranging means causing alienation or emotional distance.
Something estranging creates separation where connection once existed: The years of silence had an estranging effect on the siblings.
The word often describes experiences, behaviors, or circumstances that make people feel isolated or cut off from others: There's something estranging about grief that others haven't shared.
Loss of loyalty
- disenchantFree from false beliefs
- disillusionDestroy naive beliefs
- antagonizeIncite hostility in
- repelDrive off or disgust
disown · embitter · sour · drive away · put off · turn off · disengage · disaffect
State of being apart
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
- divorceLegal end of matrimony
- disconnectionState of being severed
disunion · parting · rupture · breakup · dissolution · rift · schism · breach
Not previously known
- foreignFrom another nation
- alienNon-native being
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
- disorientingCausing loss of direction
unsettling · Brechtian · othering · displacement · jarring · disconcerting · unnerving · off-putting
Complete separation from others
- solitudeState of being alone
- lonelinessState of lacking companions
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- withdrawalAct of taking away
exile · ostracism · segregation · quarantine · exclusion · marginalization · banishment · shunning
disaffection
Loss of loyalty
- disenchantFree from false beliefs
- disillusionDestroy naive beliefs
- antagonizeIncite hostility in
repel · disown · embitter · sour · drive away · put off · turn off · disengage · disaffect · coldness
separation
State of being apart
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
- divorceLegal end of matrimony
disconnection · disunion · parting · rupture · breakup · dissolution · rift · schism · breach · cleavage
unfamiliar
Not previously known
disorienting · unsettling · Brechtian · othering · displacement · jarring · disconcerting · unnerving · off-putting · destabilizing
isolation
Complete separation from others
- solitudeState of being alone
- lonelinessState of lacking companions
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
withdrawal · exile · ostracism · segregation · quarantine · exclusion · marginalization · banishment · shunning · outcasting
- driving awayrepelling, banishing, forcing out, warding off, fending off
estrangingreconciling
Resolving a dispute
reuniting · bonding · connecting · uniting · bringing together
estrangingintegrating
Combining into a whole
including · incorporating · assimilating · enfolding · gathering
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