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misplacedness

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English

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Etymology

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From misplaced +‎ -ness.

Noun

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misplacedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being misplaced.
    • 2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 181:
      When we were kids I had often felt, however vaguely, his sadness, but this hopelessness, if it was in fact that, this lostness, misplacedness, was new and not easy to take.