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alienans.

Negating, denying, modifying, or casting doubt on the applicability of its modificand.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈeɪli.ənænz/
  1. Negating, denying, modifying, or casting doubt on the applicability of its modificand.

    not-comparable · rhetoric
    The newspaper never called him "the murderer", always "the alleged murderer", but the alienans adjective didn't help very much: the word "murderer" is all people saw.
    Because a "decoy duck" is not a duck, "decoy" is an alienans adjective.
Where this word comes from

From Latin aliēnāns, present active participle of aliēnō (“make something another's”), from aliēnus (“another's, foreign”).

noun/ˈeɪli.ənænz/
  1. An alienans adjective.

    rhetoric
Where this word comes from

From Latin aliēnāns, present active participle of aliēnō (“make something another's”), from aliēnus (“another's, foreign”).

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