alienity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The fact or condition of being alien; alienation, separation; strangeness, foreignness.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The great desire today is to deny the religious impulse altogether, or else to assert its absolute alienity from sex."
- "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."
Etymology
From alien + -ity, after Latin alienitas.
Origin
- Source language: Latin