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My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.
Cornel West

Meaning of "rootlessness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROOTLESSNESS

rootlessness  [ˈruːtləsnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROOTLESSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rootlessness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ROOTLESSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of rootlessness in the English dictionary

The definition of rootlessness in the dictionary is the state of having no roots, esp having no ties with a particular place or community.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROOTLESSNESS


breathlessness
ˈbreθləsnɪs
callousness
ˈkæləsnɪs
carelessness
ˈkeələsnɪs
helplessness
ˈhɛlpləsnɪs
hopelessness
ˈhəʊpləsnɪs
joblessness
ˈdʒɒbləsnɪs
lawlessness
ˈlɔːləsnɪs
listlessness
ˈlɪstləsnɪs
meticulousness
mɪˈtɪkjʊləsnɪs
powerlessness
ˈpaʊələsnɪs
recklessness
ˈrɛkləsnɪs
restlessness
ˈrɛstləsnɪs
ridiculousness
rɪˈdɪkjʊləsnɪs
ruthlessness
ˈruːθləsnɪs
selflessness
ˈselfləsnɪs
sleeplessness
ˈsliːpləsnɪs
thoughtlessness
ˈθɔːtləsnɪs
timelessness
ˈtaɪmləsnɪs
uselessness
ˈjuːsləsnɪs
zealousness
ˈzeləsnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROOTLESSNESS

rootedly
rootedness
rooter
roothold
rootiness
rooting compound
rooting reflex
rootkit
rootle
rootless
rootlet
rootlike
roots
roots music
rootserver
rootsiness
rootstalk
rootstock
rootsy
rootworm

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROOTLESSNESS

biliousness
business
consciousness
dangerousness
deliciousness
deviousness
flawlessness
heedlessness
hilariousness
homelessness
jealousness
nervousness
obviousness
preciousness
rebelliousness
religiousness
righteousness
seriousness
statelessness
unconsciousness
viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of rootlessness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «rootlessness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROOTLESSNESS

Find out the translation of rootlessness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rootlessness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rootlessness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无根
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desarraigo
570 millions of speakers

English

rootlessness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

rootlessness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عدم الانتماء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отсутствие корней
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desenraizamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

rootlessness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déracinement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tanpa akar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Entwurzelung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

rootlessness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

rootlessness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rootlessness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mất gốc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

rootlessness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुचकामी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

köklerinden koparılmışlığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sradicamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wykorzenienie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відсутність коренів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dezrădăcinarea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξεριζωμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontworteling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rotlöshet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rotløshet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rootlessness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROOTLESSNESS»

The term «rootlessness» is normally little used and occupies the 135.006 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROOTLESSNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rootlessness

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2 QUOTES WITH «ROOTLESSNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rootlessness.
1
Mariella Frostrup
Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.
2
Cornel West
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROOTLESSNESS»

Discover the use of rootlessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rootlessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Kamala Markandaya: A Thematic Study
6 ROOTLESSNESS A number of Indian-English novelists attempted the theme of Rootlessness. Mulk Raj An and explored this theme in Coolie, Untouchable and Two leaves and a Bud. Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope; Nayantara ...
Anil K. Bhatnagar, 1995
2
Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great Tradition ...
of rootlessness." Rootlessness is the theme of Bromfield's The Man Who Had Everything; it appears again in Louis Adamic's Grandsons. One of the best characterizations of American education is that given by T. S. Stribling in These Bars of ...
J. Wesley Null, Diane Ravitch, 2006
3
Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America
And most immigrant populations have been from poor and oppressed communities among which accurate genealogy was a luxury or an impossibility. . . . [A] certain sense of rootlessness is part of the American character.35 Had Kushner ...
Deborah R. Geis, Steven F. Kruger, 1997
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Race and State
0 Seen from the vantage point of the new national identity, the rootlessness of the Jews is manifest in the unreality of Jewish existence — unreality in the sense of the lack of that substance that constitutes the reality of a national identity, while ...
Eric Voegelin, Klaus Vondung, 1997
5
Reflections on Political Authority and Rootlessness in Works ...
The stories of Hawthorne and Melville enlarge our understandings about political authority and rootlessness, two features of every political community, within the American context.
Christopher M. Cahill, 1992
6
Epistemics of Divine Reality
Thus, the failure to root the contingent in a necessary generates the sense of rootlessness. The emotion of rootlessness is both temporal and trans-temporal. It is rootlessness in relation to the past, the present, and the future. It transcends the  ...
Domenic Marbaniang
7
Fatal Words and Friendly Faces: Interpersonal Communication ...
Skinner and Durkheim: Roots and Rootlessness The eminent psychologist, B.F. Skinner, the father of behaviorism, would undoubtedly have been comfortable concluding that the manner in which one addresses the challenges of a new ...
Larry G. Ehrlich, 2000
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Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks
He will press the point that because Dasein is entangled in the rootlessness of conventional structures that comprise its tradition it cannot gain access to its own primordial roots. Given this entanglement in the structures of everyday life, "the ...
Charles R. Bambach, 2005
9
The Post-colonial Space: Writing the Self and the Nation
Alienation. and. Rootlessness. in. the. Novels. of. Kamala. Markandaya. S. John Peter Joseph Despite great scientific and technological advancement, which certainly has immeasurably gratified man's physical comforts, the man of the ...
Nandini Sahu, 2007
10
Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Study
The characters as well as different situations of the novel stand for rootlessness. As a critic, I often wonder at our fascination about the idea of rootlessness. The present literati seems obsessed with the idea of migration. Migration, diasporic ...
Shubha Tiwari, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROOTLESSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rootlessness is used in the context of the following news items.
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PREMIERE: Meet The Highest Order in Indecision in “Stare Down …
Lately people talk about it all the time in terms of the digital age, about rootlessness and our displacement on to the internet, about how the broader picture we're ... «ChartAttack, Jul 15»
2
Dissolving America
Cohesion based on any form of natural community -- the sine qua non for a political grouping of any size -- is rendered impossible by our radical rootlessness. «American Thinker, Jun 15»
3
Michael Jansen: A story of rootlessness
Dylann Roof, the white youth who slew nine Afro-Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, and the British-Asian Dawood sisters, who took their six children to ... «Gulf Today, Jun 15»
4
Avinash Arun's Killa is adventure in the time of rootlessness
Set in the beautiful Konkan region, the Marathi movie is a poignant presentation of isolation and rootlessness that have been brushed into the cinematic canvas ... «Hindustan Times, Nov 14»
5
Art that demands the viewer takes a side
"His paintings evoke haunting, even oppressive notions of rootlessness and detachment connected with the horrors and atrocities of the 20th century or with the ... «Haaretz, Sep 14»
6
Book Review: A rootless man, a lost tribe
This posture of rootlessness, of drift, occupies the center of Joshua Ferris' third novel, “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,” which Paul narrates with an offhand ... «Press Herald, May 14»
7
Interview With Christina Baker Kline: #1 New York Times Bestselling …
You mention rootlessness being a major theme of the book, which seems a result or symptom of being an orphan. Do you agree? Does one have to experience ... «Huffington Post, Apr 14»
8
Hunting and Gathering: Rootless and Roofless
But because the script addresses the rootlessness of young would-be professionals who've chosen careers in the arts or media, the show has a strikingly ... «FWWeekly, Apr 14»
9
Putting ourselves through the (Biscuit) Mill
The free workshops draw participants into a deep dialogue about the uncomfortable issues of South African society: racism, rootlessness, the injustice of poverty ... «Thought Leader, Feb 14»
10
Springsteen gets lost: The rootlessness of “High Hopes”
When Bruce Springsteen announced his new album, “High Hopes,” there was an uncommon tone to the reactions: wariness. “High Hopes” immediately ... «Salon, Jan 14»

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