estrangedness

[Eng. estranged: -ne .] The quality or state of being estranged or alienated in affection; estrangement. *ěs-trānge-fül, *es-trang-full, *es-traungeful, a. [Eng. estrange; -ful.] Foreign, strange. ěs-trān ge-ment, s. [Eng. estrange; -ment.] 1. The act of estranging or alienating in affections. 2. The state of being estranged; a keeping away or at a distance; alienation of affections. 'Desires, by a long estrangement from better things, come at length perfectly to loath, and fly off from them.' --South: Sermons , vol. ii., ser. 6.