0 the quality of no longer supporting or being satisfied with a system, organization, or idea:
The party has been badly hit by disaffection among its own voters.
Housing and energy crises have only deepened public disaffection.
Children may miss lessons through boredom or complete disaffection with school.
Not surprisingly, the results were disaffection, poor attendance and ultimately a collapse of the organization.
Public manifestations of disaffection with the law, such as that which surrounded the forgery laws, underpinned their argument and facilitated its success.
The drafting of politicians and academics into the government tends to offer the regime a modicum of legitimacy, thereby reducing any deep cynicism and disaffection.
Citizens are dependent on some form of interaction with state actors in the context of their growing disaffection with politicians and political parties.
They suggest that the limited literature on older people's attitudes indicates that they share the disaffection of the wider population with politics and politicians.
