Definition of "alienage" []

• The official status of an alien. Also called alienism. (noun)

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• "Much alienage of the right kind, thank Tsathoggua."
• "Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected, so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or “outsideness” without laying stress on the emotion of fear."
• "Only the Federal Government can make an alienage determination."