The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word ALIENATION
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More clues leading to the result ALIENATION
- Misleading people leads to social detachment
- Be deceitful, getting into a state, causing estrangement
- Estrangement from country supporting a falsehood
- Estrangement from state after a deception
- Estrangement from a people embracing untruth
- Mental detachment of people after a rest
- A story on country producing hostility
- Estrangement from a 4,8,23d
- Isolation of a country admitting deception
- Giving a fabrication to people when there’s an estrangement
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The straight part
We know that "social detachment" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case social detachment = alienation.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does ALIENATION mean?
ALIENATION noun- The act of alienating.
- The state of being alienated.
- Emotional isolation or dissociation.
- Verfremdungseffekt.