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alienity

alienity noun: the fact or condition of being alien; alienation, separation; strangeness, foreignness.

Noun

alienity (uncountable)

  1. The fact or condition of being alien; alienation, separation; strangeness, foreignness.
    • The great desire today is to deny the religious impulse altogether, or else to assert its absolute alienity from sex.1922, DH Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious
    • As the British authors hold the power of representation in the texts, it is tempting to interpret their use of humour as a textual expression of defence against an other that they perceive as implicitly dangerous because of its alienity.2016, Lucia Krämer, Bollywood in Britain, page 149

Origin of alienity

From alien + -ity, after Latin alienitas.

Questions about alienity

What does alienity mean?
Alienity means the fact or condition of being alien; alienation, separation; strangeness, foreignness.
What part of speech is alienity?
Alienity is a noun.

Words near alienity in the dictionary

  1. alienising
  2. alienism
  3. alienisms
  4. alienist
  5. alienists
  6. alienity
  7. alienization
  8. alienize
  9. alienized
  10. alienizes
  11. alienizing

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