peregrinity means the quality of being foreign or strange. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “peregrinity” is a great word
PEREGRINITY — [Noun] The intrinsic quality or condition of being foreign, alien, or purposefully displaced. From the Latin peregrīnitās, from peregrīnus ("foreign, traveling abroad") + -itās ("-ity, forming a state or quality"). Unlike "alienage," which denotes a specific legal status, or "indigenousness," which asserts a rooted, native claim, peregrinity is the experiential state of bearing the atmosphere of elsewhere. It is the scent of unfamiliar spices on a traveler's clothes, the architectural silhouette of a city that refuses to orient you, and the quiet ache of observing a local custom from an uncomprehending distance—a testament to the soul's capacity to be at home in its own unbelonging.
Etymology
From peregrine + -ity, from Latin peregrīnitās. Compare French pérégrinité.
noun
- The quality of being foreign or strange.“It will be correct, that is, free from faults, if the tongue bee loose, articulate, sweet, and polite: that is, in which no tone of rusticity or peregrinity is discoverable.”
- The status of being a non-citizen in Ancient Rome.“There were different grades of peregrinity, however, as socii in general; socii nominis Latini; dedititii; yet they could attain to individual privileges, as, for instance, those of connubium (Liv. xxxi . 31.).”
- Travel; wandering.“A new removal, what we call 'his third peregrinity,' had to be decided on; and it was resolved that Rome should be the goal of it[.]”