Marx's term for workers' lack of connection to the product of their labor; caused by workers being assigned repetitive tasks on a small pack of a product; leading to a feeling of powerlessness and normlessness is alienation. The term alienation is used in social science do denote the state of feeling estranged or separated from one's milieu, work, products of work, or self.
In general sense id denotes not feeling a part of something.
