Meanings
- uncountableThe 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 Unconscious1 more example
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
- Latinalienitas
- Englishalienity
From alien + -ity, after Latin alienitas.
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