anomy
pronunciation
How to pronounce anomy in British English:
UK ['ænəmɪ]
How to pronounce anomy in American English:
US ['ænəmɪ]
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- Noun:
- personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation
- lack of moral standards in a society
Word Origin
- anomy (n.)
- "lawlessness," 1590s, anglicized from French anomie; from Greek anomia "lawlessness," noun of quality from anomos "without law, lawless," from a-, privative prefix, "without" (see an- (1)) + nomos "law" (see numismatics).