alienity

English

Etymology

From alien +‎ -ity, after Latin alienitas.

Noun

alienity (uncountable)

1. The fact or condition of being alien; alienation, separation; strangeness, foreignness.
   • 1922, DH Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:

     The great desire today is to deny the religious impulse altogether, or else to assert its absolute alienity from sex.

   • 2016, Lucia Krämer, Bollywood in Britain, p. 149:

     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.