1. Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values. 2. Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals: “We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie and rage” (Charles Krauthammer, Time May 8, 1989).
ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Greek anomi, lawlessness, from anomos, lawless : a-, without; see a–1 + nomos, law; see nem- in Appendix I.
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, lawlessness, from anomos, lawless : a-, without; see a–1 + nomos, law; see nem- in Appendix I.
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