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not-at-homeness en · NOUN

Etymology

From not + at + home + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Of a person, a condition or state of not being at home.
    • It flees/row the uncanny not-at-homeness that lies at the ground of a thrown being-in-the-world. 2001, Magda King, A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time, page 96:
    • The strangeness and not-at-homeness in this narrative are not linked to simple mimesis, or representation, but rather to the concept of becoming, pefrormance^([sic]), and narrating. 2008, Sean Michael Scanlan, Narrating Nostalgia: Modern Literary Homesickness in New York Narratives, 1809-1925:

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