What is "alienness"

Usage examples of "alienness".

Although it was not identical to his own, he sensed a reaching out from her alienness to his humanness.

Some large creatures flew overhead, crying raucously, and he felt again that sense of alienness that often deserted him on his daily Greentrees.

Yet frequently a name has to convey the alienness of a person or a locale.

Yet for all the predictability of the Duncan pattern this last Duncan was something very different He became Leto II's appointed Judas Iscanot a destroyer created by his godlike victim as an instrument of the felix culpa the fortunate fall Duncan-the Last was the agent of the change that Leto II knew must come but which he feared too much to implement himself Also, since the final Duncan was the loundation needed to sustain the Golden Road, he avoided the scapegoat role that usually accompanies Judas figures, in no little part because of the alienness of the metamorphosed God Emperor However, not all the achievements of Duncan-the-Last were designed by Leto II, in part the last ghola's character resulted from .

What was less reassuring, she realized, was the utter alienness that she had glimpsed of the inner workings of the Thurien mind.

His alienness was even more apparent than that of his maned companions, but it would seem that he occupied some position of authority among them, for two had hurried to aid him from his traveling sling and fell in a pace or so behind as he waddled towards the commander.

The Angel and the Sword doesn't ring with quite the power of, say, Jerusalem (1996), Holland's novel of the 12th-century Latin Kingdoms of the East, wherein she conveyed both the deep alienness and common humanity of people in such a far past, but it does offer both a soberingly honest picture of life in 9th-century Europe and some wonderful glimpses of medieval ways of thought.

After walking around the ship and looking it over carefully, though, Byrne began to pick out the little touches of alienness that showed, and showed clearly to the trained eye of a spaceman.

One other smell: the same suggestion of alienness he had noted when searching for the vanishing trace of the thing in Veg's forest.