Alienation vs. Assimilation — What's the Difference?

The act of alienating or the condition of being alienated; estrangement

The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas

(Psychology) See depersonalization.

The absorption and digestion of food or nutrients by the body or any biological system

(Law) The act of transferring property or title to it to another.

The process of becoming similar to something

The act of alienating.

The act or process of assimilating.

The state of being alienated.

The state of being assimilated.

Emotional isolation or dissociation.

(Physiology) The conversion of nutriments into living tissue; constructive metabolism.

(theatre) Verfremdungseffekt.

(Linguistics) The process by which a sound is modified so that it becomes similar or identical to an adjacent or nearby sound. For example, the prefix in- becomes im- in impossible by assimilation to the labial p of possible.

(property law) The transfer of property to another person.

The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.

The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.

The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.

(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.

(phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.

The feeling of being alienated from other people

The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Separation resulting from hostility

The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.

(law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another;

The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.

The action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly;

The state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

In the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance