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alienism vs strangeness

strangeness vs alienism

alienism and strangeness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
alienism Yes No No No
strangeness Yes No No No
As nouns, strangeness is a hypernym of alienism; that is, strangeness is a word with a broader meaning than alienism:
  • alienism: the quality of being alien
  • strangeness: the quality of being alien or not native
Other hypernyms of alienism include curiousness, foreignness.
alienism (noun) strangeness (noun)
the quality of being alien unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness the quality of being alien or not native
(physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third lightest of all quarks
Difference between alienism and strangeness

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