not-at-homeness

English

Noun

not-at-homeness (uncountable)

1. Of a person, a condition or state of not being at home.
   • 2001, Magda King, A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time, page 96:

     It flees/row the uncanny not-at-homeness that lies at the ground of a thrown being-in-the-world.

   • 2008, Sean Michael Scanlan, Narrating Nostalgia: Modern Literary Homesickness in New York Narratives, 1809-1925‎^[1]:

     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.

See also

• at-homeness