outness
- noun
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exclusión
- After the reorganization, several employees felt the outness of being left off important teams.
Examples
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The club's strict rules led to the outness of anyone who disagreed with the leadership.
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Her sense of outness grew as her friends made plans without her.
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His outness from the group was evident during the meeting.
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The outness she felt made her very lonely.
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Her sense of outness grew as her friends made plans without her.
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The club's strict rules led to the outness of anyone who disagreed with the leadership.
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The outness she felt made her very lonely.
Synonyms
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4.2
A situation when someone is not allowed to join or take part in a group
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7.4
Feeling of being alone and separate from other people
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7.9
Leaving someone out of a group on purpose
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8.1
Feeling left out and watching others take part
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6.7
A state of being separate from other people
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7.7
Feeling separate from a group or community
Feeling not part of a group or community
A feeling of not being accepted or part of a group
Not belonging to a group or organization
Being rejected by most people and treated as an outsider
Antonyms
How Included
Surface Forms
Morphology
outness = (semi-transparent) = out + ness
The formation is clear, but the sense of being excluded from a group is a specialized extension of 'out'. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Outness comes from out meaning 'not in' or 'outside' and the ending -ness meaning 'a state'. Think of the phrase 'left out' or the word outcast—outness is the state or feeling of being excluded from a group.