anomie
🇺🇸
/ˈænəmi/
🇬🇧
/ˈænəmi/
noun
R
A feeling of uncertainty or confusion about what is right and wrong because society's rules and values are unclear or have broken down.
After the economic collapse, a sense of anomie spread throughout the city as people struggled to understand their place in the world.
translation
A feeling of uncertainty or confusion about what is right and wrong because society's rules and values are unclear or have broken down.
Word Forms
Plural
anomies