单词 | alienness |
释义 | aliennessn. rare before 19th cent. The fact or quality of being alien (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > stranger or outsider > condition of Barbarya1300 alienness1655 strangership1824 strangerhood1857 strangerdom1867 expatriatism1970 1655 Ornitho-logie 16 I will not insist on the aliennesse of his extraction; we living here in Syracuse whilst this Parrot fetcheth his Originall from the South of Africk, or East of Asia. 1843 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. II. 524 This is the ‘argumentum in circulo incident to all spiritual truths’, from the ‘alien-ness of Time’ to the supernatural. 1881 Mind 6 523 When it [sc. space] is recognised as being in reality the first intelligible bond by which things are connected..the apparent alienness of the world to intelligence disappears. 1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 33 Absolute alienness which no amount of Esperanto and international government..will ever..completely abolish. 1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. V. 363 If alienness were really a hindrance and not a help to the spread of a ‘higher religion’. 1999 M. J. Friedman My Brother's Keeper i. iv. 51 So what made him feel more at home with Spock, despite the Vulcan's alienness? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1655 |
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