alienity

Noun

1. The fact or condition of being alien; alienation, separation; strangeness, foreignness.
   • The great desire today is to deny the religious impulse altogether, or else to assert its absolute alienity from sex. - 1922, DH Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:
   • 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...