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EXILEHOOD — [Noun] The state or condition of being an exile, characterized by the prolonged, lived reality of displacement. From exile (from Old French *essil*, *exil*, ultimately from Latin *exilium*, "banishment") + the suffix -hood (from Old English *-hād*, denoting state or condition). Unlike "banishment," which names the official act of expulsion, or "diaspora," which describes a people's broad historical scattering, exilehood is the enduring interior weather of the expelled. It is the metallic taste of air in a strange city, the habit of converting currency long after it is necessary, and the precise weightlessness of a key that no longer fits any lock—a permanent residency in the liminal space between a past that has become a country and a present that remains a provisional tense.