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Alienism

Definition: Alienism

Alienism

Noun

1. The quality of being alien.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Alienism

Synonym: alienage (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Alienism

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Extraneousness

Noun: extraneousness; Adjective: extrinsicality; exteriority; alienage, alienism. foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander; outsider; Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Alienism

"Alienism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alienism" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alienism

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  alienism

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Alienism

Language Translations for "alienism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

psikiatri (psychiatry). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

психиатрия (mental hospital, psychiatry). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pszichiátria (psychiatry), külföldi jellege valaminek. (various references)

   

Italian

  

condizione di straniero. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alienismay

   

Portuguese

  

psiquiatria (psychiatry). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

психиатрия (psychiatry). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

alienizam. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

psiquiatría (psychiatry). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

akıl hastalıkları. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

психіатрія (psychiatry). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Alienism

Derivations

Words beginning with "alienism": alienisms. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Alienism"

Words rhyming with "alienism" (pronounced 'Al"ien*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism, Anilinism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Alienism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-m-n-s"

-1 letter: malines, menials, mislain, seminal.

-2 letters: aliens, alines, amines, animes, animis, elains, emails, imines, inseam, lemans, liaise, lianes, limans, limens, limina, mailes, maline, menial, mensal, mesial, mesian, mislie, saimin, saline, samiel, semina, silane, sileni, simian, simile, simlin, simnel.

-3 letters: aisle, alien, aline, almes, amens, amies, amine, amins, anile, anils, anime, animi, anise, elain, elans.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-m-n-s"
 

+1 letter: alienisms, alimonies, mainlines, semifinal.

 

+2 letters: aluminizes, animaliers, animalizes, calcimines, eliminates, leishmania, lesbianism, luminaires, luminaries, medicinals, melanistic, metalising, militances, mineralise, misaligned, misdealing, misleading, missileman, moniliases, nialamides, palimonies, semifinals, sinsemilla.

 

+3 letters: animalities, antielitism, antimissile, antirealism, dimensional, eliminators, habiliments, illuminates, inestimable, inestimably, laminitises, leishmanial, leishmanias, lesbianisms, lifemanship, malignities, marbleising, marlinspike, masculinise, masculinize, mediastinal, mentalistic, mentalities, meridionals, militancies, millenaries, mineralised, mineralises, mineralizes, ministerial, misalliance, misaltering, mislabeling, mislearning, mispleading, misrelating, nonfamilies, normalities, orientalism, plebeianism, pleinairism, regionalism, semidiurnal, sillimanite, sinsemillas, testimonial, trigeminals.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Alienism


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 69 65 6E 69 73 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-..    ..    .    -.    ..    ...    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101001 01100101 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#105 &#101 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 0069 0065 006E 0069 0073 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3578757180758579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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