unbelonging
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[edit]Noun
[edit]unbelonging (uncountable)
- Lack of belonging; the quality of being an outsider or a pariah.
- 2007, Sheila Collingwood-Whittick, The Pain of Unbelonging, page 167:
- Hardly has she uttered this rather unfortunate statement than she realizes her mistake; the stereotyped representation of Islanders behind her comment is proof of her awareness of his unbelonging and serves only to ostracize him.