Noun
The fact or condition of being alien; alienation, separation; strangeness, foreignness.
Usage- Uncountable
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The great desire today is to deny the religious impulse altogether, or else to assert its absolute alienity from sex.
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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.