[f. prec. + -NESS.] The state or condition of being estranged; alienation in feeling or affection.
1645. Prynne, Vind. Four Questions, 2 (L.). The greatest token of estrangedness or want of familiarity one with another.
1662. Earl Orrery, State Lett. (1743), II. 434. The estrangedness of the Irish papists.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. (1716), I. 60. Instead of a suspicious estrangedness … will spring up an humble confidence.
1825. Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1818), I. 96. By estrangedness and distance from God.
1869. S. Wilberforce, Oxf. Lent Serm., 1. The long Gentile estrangedness.
