estrangement
B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister
The state of being emotionally alienated or cut off from someone once close.
Their estrangement lasted a decade, until a family funeral forced them into the same room.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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