Usually means: Feeling isolated from societal groups.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (social alienation)

noun:  (philosophy, general) a person's feeling of disconnection and/or isolation from a group – whether friends, family, or wider society – or another individual due to low degree of integration or common values
noun:  (Hegelian philosophy) psychological state and objective process in which the self was a historical and social creation, which becomes alienated from itself via a perceived objective world, but can become de-alienated again when that world is seen as just another aspect of the self-consciousness, which may be achieved by self-sacrifice to the common good

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