Anomie

[nadinbrzezinski]

SYLLABICATION: an·o·mie
PRONUNCIATION: n-m
VARIANT FORMS: or an·o·my
NOUN: 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.
OTHER FORMS: a·nomic (-nmk, -nmk) —ADJECTIVE

Get familiar with it... since it is basic for any police state

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Kick

[WilliamPitt]

2. Well, if Charles Krauthammer says it, it must be true.

:P

Uh, Chuck? That doomed generation you spoke of in 1989 was, by 1996, the reason why you had a laptop and cell phone and a lot of money in your stock portfolio.

Sorry. I'm not a fan of that fellow.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I learned the word in a sociology class

in Hight School in Mexico City...

Trust me Charles Krathhaumer had absolutely nothing to do with the term