not-at-homeness

noun

Of a person, a condition or state of not being at home.

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Meanings

nounnot-at-homeness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableOf a person, a condition or state of not being at home.

    It flees/row the uncanny not-at-homeness that lies at the ground of a thrown being-in-the-world.

    2001, Magda King, A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time, page 96
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    The strangeness and not-at-homeness in this narrative are not linked to simple mimesis, or representation, but rather to the concept of becoming, pefrormance^([sic]), and narrating.

    2008, Sean Michael Scanlan, Narrating Nostalgia: Modern Literary Homesickness in New York Narratives, 1809-1925

Origin

From not + at + home + -ness.

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