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uprootedness

n. The quality of being uprooted.

Usage examples of "uprootedness".

Cannes the month before, had each touched glances and seen immediately in the other an identical uprootedness, a similarly catholic despair.

He was so convinced and conscious of his isolation, his swimming in the water, his uprootedness, that a glimpse now and then of the orderly daily round--the punctuality, for example, that kept me to my office hours, or an expression let fall by a servant or tramway conductor--acted on him literally as a stimulus without in the least arousing his scorn.

Once again she felt the uprootedness of her first awakening, its alien, nightmare quality.

It has deep significance for those who have lived through social chaos, uprootedness, irrational torture, and this accounts for the pessimism and nightmarish imagery that pervade much Existentialist writing.

Besides uprootedness and culture shock, they must daily live with the fact of defeat.