outsiderishnessn.
/ˌaʊtˈsʌɪd(ə)rᵻʃnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈsaɪdərɪʃnᵻs/ The quality or fact of being an outsider.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society > way of life, condition, or domain of
vie de Bohème1888
beatness1951
outsiderishness1956
outsiderliness1957
outsiderdom1958
outsiderhood1958
outsiderism1958
outsiderness1961
flower power1967
hippiedom1967
hippieland1967
boho1979
1956 C. Wilson Outsider viii. 216 He had accepted his ‘Outsider-ishness’, not as a symptom of some strange disease, but as a sign that his healthy soul was being suffocated in a world of trivial, shallow, corrupted fools.
1992 Daily Tel. 28 Feb. 21 The flat, persistent voices of both Enoch Powell and Brian Walden retain strong traces of their native West Midlands. I suspect that only those who make a career of outsiderishness can successfully cling to it.
1995 Times (Nexis) 30 Sept. There was an awkwardness about him too, an outsiderishness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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