Abandon

Abandon, abandoned, or abandonment may refer to:

• Abandonment (emotional), a subjective emotional state in which people feel undesired, left behind, insecure, or discarded
• Abandonment (existentialism), the existentialist idea that humanity is abandoned in existence and must find its own meaning
• Abandonment (legal), a legal term regarding property
  • Child abandonment, the extralegal abandonment of children
  • Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property, legal status of property after abandonment and rediscovery
• Abandonment (mysticism)

Art, entertainment, and media

Film

• The Abandonment, a 1916 silent short film
• Abandoned (1949 film), a 1949 film starring Dennis O'Keefe
• The Abandoned (1955 film), the English language title of the 1955 Italian war film Gli Sbandati
• Abandoned (2001 film), a 2001 Hungarian film
• Abandon (film), a 2002 film starring Katie Holmes
• The Abandoned (2006 film), a 2006 film by Nacho Cerdà
• Abandoned (2010 film), a 2010 film starring Brittany Murphy
• The Abandoned (2010 film), a 2010 film starring Mira Furlan
• The Abandoned (2015 film), a 2015 film starring Louisa Krause
• Abandoned, a 2015 Television Movie about a shipwreck

Literature

• Abandon, a thriller novel by Blake Crouch
• Abandonment, a play by Kate Atkinson

Music

• Abandon (band), an alternative rock band on ForeFront Records
• Los Abandoned, music group
• Abandon (album), a 1998 album by rock band Deep Purple
• Abandoned (album), a 2015 album by hardcore punk band Defeater
• "Abandoned" (song), a song by Jay Park
• "Abandoned", a song from the Kamelot album The Black Halo

Television

• Abandoned (Viceland TV series), an America reality television series starring Rick McCrank
• Abandoned (TV series), an American reality television series
• "Abandoned" (Lost), the 30th episode of the television show Lost, from the show's second season
• "The Abandoned" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), the 6th episode in the 3rd season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• "Abandoned", Inspector America episode
• "Abandoned", an episode of Power Rangers S.P.D.
• "Abandoned", Smallville season 10 episode

Other uses

• Abandoned footwear
• Abandoned pets
• Abandoned railway
• Abandoned village, a human habitat that has been abandoned
• Mate abandonment, in animal behavior, where one parent deserts the other

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with abandon
• All pages with titles containing abandon