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Social death
noun
The alienation of certain people from society to the point of being forgotten, excluded, or ignored in society.
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"Social death".
Social death dons many forms.
Moreover, it's social death not to.
"It was social death; once I was home, there was no chance I was going out".
An evening at Le Cirque without a table-side visit from him is social death.
Mr. Mullin said, "It's social death in New Castle not to have the right furnishing".
It wasn't long ago that being called a "slut" meant social death.
J.R.O.T.C. was social death there, too, so the battalion-commander job was his.
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Because the worm is such a high stakes maneuver that attempting it is instant social-death because it'll never look as good as the wormer thinks it will.
Simply becoming a widow lowers a woman's social status, as she succumbs to a 'social death' when her husband dies – she may even be viewed as inauspicious, especially if she is too young or lost her husband soon after marriage.
Other expressions that are used to describe these losses include 'social death' and 'former selves' [ 40] which support the feelings experienced by caregivers in this study that their relative had disappeared.
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