Definition of "marginality" [marginality]

• The state of being marginal (noun)

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• "I suppose one of the reasons for that feeling of marginality is not so much representation on faculty or publications, as respect for women writers of the past in these venues."
• "After a lengthy description of the Childe and Braidwood models, Binford dismissed both of them in favor of yet a third explanation that later came to be known as the marginality or edge hypothesis."
• "Nonetheless, the experience of childhood "marginality" could not be erased: periodically even at Smith she could feel "awkward," painfully isolated, and ugly."