abalienated
adj.adj. feeling like you are separated from your own mind or from other people. It is a very formal way to describe someone who feels like a stranger to themselves or their surroundings.
adj. mentally dissociated or estranged from one's own mind, property, or social group. Often used in psychological or legal contexts to describe a state of profound alienation.
The patient felt abalienated from his own thoughts during the episode.
After years of living in isolation, the hermit felt completely abalienated from the customs of modern society.
The protagonist's abalienated state serves as a metaphor for the industrial worker's disconnect from the final product of their labor, a theme central to the novel's philosophical inquiry.
Typically functions as a predicative adjective following a linking verb like 'feel' or 'become'.