not-at-homeness
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- 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.