alienity means the fact or condition of being alien; alienation, separation; strangeness, foreignness. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 94 out of 100.
Why “alienity” is a great word
ALIENITY — [Noun] The condition of being profoundly alien, characterized by an irreducible foreignness or existential separation. From English 'alien' (from Latin 'aliēnus', meaning "belonging to another, foreign") + the noun-forming suffix '-ity', modeled after Latin 'aliēnitās'. Unlike "alterity," which constructs the other as a relational counterpart, or "foreignness," which denotes a geographic unfamiliarity, alienity implies an existential chasm, a difference so fundamental it precludes assimilation. It is the taste of a fruit for which you have no reference, the architectural logic of a city that makes your bones ache for a lost horizon, and the silence that falls not from hostility but from a fundamental lack of common ground. This is the quiet, dispassionate truth of being a permanent stranger.
Etymology
From alien + -ity, after Latin alienitas.
noun
- 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.”