anomy Definition

anomie
anomy
noun anomies

1. A lack of regard for the generally accepted social or moral standards either in an individual or in a social group.
2. The state or condition of having no regard for the generally accepted social or moral standards.

Etymology: First coined by the French sociologist Emile Durkheim (1858‐1917) in Suicide (1897), and first attested in English in the 1930s: from Greek anomia lawlessness.