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not-at-homeness
not-at-homeness
English
Noun
not-at-homeness (uncountable)
- (of a person) a condition or state of not being at home
- 2008, Sean Michael Scanlan, Narrating Nostalgia: Modern Literary Homesickness in New York Narratives, 1809-1925
- "The strangeness and not-at-homeness in this narrative are not linked to simple mimesis, or representation, but rather to the concept of becoming, pefrormance, and narrating."
- 2008, Sean Michael Scanlan, Narrating Nostalgia: Modern Literary Homesickness in New York Narratives, 1809-1925