What does anomic mean?

anomic means "socially disoriented".

How many syllables are in anomic?

anomic has 3 syllables: a-no-mic. The stress falls on "no".

What is another word for anomic?

Close synonyms include alienated, disoriented. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anomic a common word?

anomic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

anomic — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
socially disoriented
“anomic loners musing over their fate”
“we live in an age of rootless alienated people”
Synonymsalienated disoriented
Similarunoriented

Questions about anomic

What does anomic mean?: anomic means "socially disoriented".
How many syllables are in anomic?: anomic has 3 syllables: a-no-mic. The stress falls on "no".
What is another word for anomic?: Close synonyms include alienated, disoriented. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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