Alienage (Noun)
Meaning
The quality of being alien.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- Her unusual appearance and mannerisms evoked a sense of alienage in everyone she met on her travels.
- The science fiction movie portrayed a planet of humanoid creatures with an inherent sense of alienage.
- In the artist's paintings, the depiction of humans as hybrid beings conveyed a feeling of alienage.
- He found himself overcome with alienage when he moved to a foreign country where he couldn't speak the language.
- The unsettling sense of alienage lingered long after the visitor from a distant culture had left the small town.