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noun Sociology.
- a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
noun
- sociol lack of social or moral standards in an individual or society
“lawlessness,” 1590s, anglicized from French anomie; from Greek anomia “lawlessness,” noun of quality from anomos “without law, lawless,” from a-, privative prefix, “without” (see an- (1)) + nomos “law” (see numismatics).
“absence of accepted social values,” 1933, from Durkheim’s “Suicide” (1897); a reborrowing with French spelling of anomy.