alienness
State of unfamiliarity
Alienness is the quality of being alien—foreign, strange, or fundamentally other.
It describes the sense that something belongs to a different world or nature: The alienness of the landscape unsettled her.
The word captures not just unfamiliarity but a deeper sense of incompatibility or unknowability: He never lost his feeling of alienness in his adopted country.
Quality of being original
- disorientationLoss of spatial awareness
- bewildermentState of being baffled
- unaccustomedNot yet familiar with
- newnessState of being recent
foreignness · incomprehension · strangeness · uncharted · unknown · terra incognita · culture shock · learning curve
Strikingly unconventional
- peculiarStrangely unusual
- oddUnusual or not even
- surrealDreamlike and strange
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
abnormal · eccentric · weird · unusual · mysterious · inexplicable · anomalous · outlandish
One living abroad permanently
- immigrantOne who resettles abroad
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
customs · border · asylum · deportation · naturalization · emigrant · sojourner · outsider
Unidentified aerial craft
- ETAlien abbreviation
- abductionUnlawful seizure of person
- RoswellNew Mexico city, UFO-famous
- Area 51Classified Nevada test facility
spacecraft · interstellar · exoplanet · astrobiology · saucer · little green men · cosmic · galactic
Delicate beyond earthly measure
- celestialOf the sky above
- transcendentExceeding usual boundaries
- mysticalOf hidden spiritual significance
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
ghostly · metaphysical · occult · astral · numinous · eerie · phantasmal · otherworldly
Pushed to society's edges
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- isolationComplete separation from others
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- nonconformistRejects prevailing social standards
misfit · pariah · outcast · ostracism · stigmatized · deviant · fringe · dissident
novelty
Quality of being original
- disorientationLoss of spatial awareness
- bewildermentState of being baffled
- unaccustomedNot yet familiar with
newness · foreignness · incomprehension · strangeness · uncharted · unknown · terra incognita · culture shock · learning curve · adjustment
bizarre
Strikingly unconventional
uncanny · abnormal · eccentric · weird · unusual · mysterious · inexplicable · anomalous · outlandish · grotesque
expatriate
One living abroad permanently
passport · customs · border · asylum · deportation · naturalization · emigrant · sojourner · outsider · exile
UFO
Unidentified aerial craft
Area 51 · spacecraft · interstellar · exoplanet · astrobiology · saucer · little green men · cosmic · galactic · starship
ethereal
Delicate beyond earthly measure
- celestialOf the sky above
- transcendentExceeding usual boundaries
- mysticalOf hidden spiritual significance
spectral · ghostly · metaphysical · occult · astral · numinous · eerie · phantasmal · otherworldly · divine
marginalized
Pushed to society's edges
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- isolationComplete separation from others
- displacementRemoval from usual location
nonconformist · misfit · pariah · outcast · ostracism · stigmatized · deviant · fringe · dissident · estrangement
- othernessother, otherness, othering, stranger, foreigner
- unnaturalnessartificiality, affectation, contrivance, falseness, fabrication
aliennessfamiliarity
Knowledge through experience
familiarness · knowability · recognizability · ordinariness · comprehensibility
aliennessbelongingness
Need for social inclusion
belonging · at-homeness · indigenousness · rootedness · inclusion
aliennessordinariness
State of being unremarkable
normalcy · commonness · mundaneness · everydayness · conventionality
alien, aliens, alienate, alienation, inalienable, alienable, unalienable, alienist