alienation

The alienation happens to every person as a result of being part of social class in a capitalist system, it is a condition where person driven apart from their humanity. It is a Karl Marx theory.

Karl Marx: "In capitalism, alienation happens to workers when they lose control of their own life activities and the ability to fulfill their true human needs."

by Neizen January 14, 2017

ambienated

when you sleep eat, walk, cook, call, shave your cat, watch tv, wrap presents after taking ambien, before falling asleep, which you may or may not remember or do correctly

This morning I found eggs in the microwave that I must have made last night when I was ambienated but I forgot to eat.

by pearappleblue February 5, 2017

Alginate

My friend misspelled the word Alvina it came out as this abomination

Hello alginate

by the green bean machine April 29, 2024

Parental Alienation

Covert emotional abuse usually a parent with primary custody interfering with the other parents' ability to form an emotional parental connection with children by brainwashing tactics and denying visitation over time causing children to unjustifiably take on their behaviors towards the alienated parent.

My son feels that way about me because of his mom’s parental alienation.

by Black Dads Matter February 24, 2024

Methodological Alienation

The feeling that the methods used by experts to gain knowledge are so complex and inaccessible that they might as well be magic. It’s the sense of alienation a non-coder feels when looking at a wall of Python script, or a layperson feels when reading a dense statistical analysis. This alienation can foster resentment and a belief that the experts are hiding something behind their complicated jargon, rather than simply using necessary tools.

Example: "Looking at the climate models, I felt a wave of Methodological Alienation. It was all Greek to me, so I just assumed they were making it up."

by Dumu The Void March 11, 2026

Epistemological Alienation

A profound and unsettling disconnection from the very concept of knowing. It’s the feeling that all sources of knowledge—news, science, personal experience, authority—are equally unreliable, leaving you in a state where you can't trust anything, including your own reasoning. This is deeper than simple skepticism; it’s a state of cognitive nihilism where the foundations of "how we know what we know" have crumbled.

Example: "After falling down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, he wasn't just confused, he was in a state of Epistemological Alienation, unable to trust any fact whatsoever."

by Dumu The Void March 11, 2026

Scientific Alienation

The feeling of being disconnected from, or hostile towards, the institutions, language, and culture of science. It’s not just a lack of understanding, but a sense that science is an exclusive club that you're not invited to, or that it's a tool used by elites to control you. This alienation can lead to a rejection of scientific consensus, not because of a better theory, but because the whole enterprise feels foreign and untrustworthy.

Example: "His distrust of the CDC isn't based on data; it's a deep Scientific Alienation, a feeling that those labs have nothing to do with his real life."

by Dumu The Void March 11, 2026