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Alienation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a process in personal growth involving a divestiture or externalization from one's 'natural consciousness' that leads to a reunification and development of the self.

Alienation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a state in which norms are imposed solely as outwardly authoritative and not yet inwardly affirmed. Hegel calls this 'positivity' meaning the opposite of what we might think.

Alienation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that which consciousness attempts to remove by a series of manoeuvres both to remove the alien otherness of external objects and to acquire objective content for itself.

Alienation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the extra work needed to raise an average person to a high level of culture (whereby culture, for the average person, appears to be remote, hovers over, and humiliates him).

Alienation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the stage of disunion which emerges from a simple unity and is subsequently reconciled in a higher, differentiated unity.