1. personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation; [syn: anomie, anomy]
2. lack of moral standards in a society; [syn: anomie, anomy]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
anomie
n 1: personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a
lack of social control and regulation [syn: anomie,
anomy]
2: lack of moral standards in a society [syn: anomie, anomy]