elsewhereism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or process of thinking about something other than one's immediate surroundings.
Uncountable
noun
A preference for other places; a belief that things are better or more interesting elsewhere.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Indeed these old legends are in their nature subjective rather than objective, and have their roots in a primitive tendency of the human mind which might be named "elsewhereism" or " alibism.""
- "For example, engaging in 'elsewhereism' (e.g., daydreaming, doodling, and texting) is but one strategy that others may use to resist superordinate's attempts to frame the interaction sequences at hand."
- "But like all things in evolution, the solutions produced by elsewhereism have created new problems ."
- "Brodber uses the most commonly recognized tropes of Caribbean discourse—and, to borrow a term from Gates's Signifying Monkey, " tropes the tropes" of exile, self-hatred, self-alienation, and longing for the sought after prestige of privileged white Otherness, elevating elsewhereism, accepting as natural a hegemonically imposed sense of historylessness, split subjectivity, dependence and psychic fragmentation."
- "Not subject to elsewhereism."
- "The téléroman exudes both a sense of déjà vu and “elsewhereism.”"