Anomie Anomy An Uh Mee Noun Social Instability Alienation Caused

[From French anomie, from Greek anomia (lawlessness), from anomos (lawless), from a- (without) + nomos (law). Ultimately from the Indo-European root nem- (to assign or take) that's also the source for words such as number, numb, nomad, metronome, astronomy, and nemesis.]

"That didn't mean the music was emotionless, but that the emotions were bleak: isolation, urban anomie, feeling cold and hollow inside, paranoia." - Simon Reynolds; One Nation Under A Moog; The Guardian (London, UK); Oct 10, 2009.