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Meaning of alienity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The fact or condition of being alien; alienation, separation; strangeness, foreignness.

uncountable

Examples

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

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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