In a technical formulation, I need to define two opposite states. In particular, the first represents the state of an agent which invades, thereby called invasion. The second one corresponds to the agent which is invaded. What noun would reflect the latter meaning?
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4The invasion is an event that both sides experience. An occupation could be said to exist during or after an invasion. An invasion is still an invasion for the invaded people, Columbus Day and Australia Day are sometimes referred to as Invasion Day by some people (usually those invaded).– ZebrafishCommented Nov 8, 2018 at 15:39
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3During an invasion, there are both the invaders and the invaded. The word invasion doesn't distinguish between the two.– Jason BassfordCommented Nov 8, 2018 at 19:46
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Invasion isn't a state, it's an action. The state of someone who's invading is that they're invading or occupying or in occupation; the others are being invaded or being occupied or under occupation.– Stuart FCommented Feb 21 at 12:31
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'Occupied region/country'.– Edwin AshworthCommented Jun 19 at 11:59
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Maybe 'Resistance'. Though, as others have mentioned, invasion applies for both.– EMSCommented Oct 17 at 6:47
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States are more like adjectives or attributes, and entities move from state to state is more like some thing, a noun, having an attribute corresponding to the state the entity is in.
'Invasion' is the noun for the act (the verb) invading. So for the process of an 'invasion', the 'invaders', a noun/entity, the actors preforming the invasion) invade (a verb/ the label for some transition/change of state) a ... well, you're looking for some word that says it is the entity that has been invaded, the object of an invasion.
There is no single word, cognate or not, that captures the object of the invasion.
Invaded land, Conquered people, occupied territory, the place that has been invaded
are all noun phrases which capture the idea, but a single noun doesn't exist for it in English. English doesn't really allow well for making a noun out of an adjective.
In Romance languages, you can use adjectives without a following noun:
un employé
which has been borrowed directly into English as 'employee'. The '-é' or rather the '-ee' ending is also productively in English but it takes time for particular instances to catch on. Divorcee, trainee, adoptee are all objects of a transitive verb. 'Invadee' ... just isn't an accepted word in English at least not in formal writing.
In a technical formulation, I need to define two opposite states. In particular, the first represents the state of an agent which invades, thereby called invasion.
No. Invasion is a noun, not a state.
The foreign army that enters another territory is the invading (adj.) army and are "the invaders (n.)"
The territory that is invaded is an invaded(adj.) territory.
It is therefore possible to create a substantive, the invaded, to describe those whose country has been invaded.
It is also possible to use the invaded to describe a set of countries that have been invaded:
"Thirty of the Papal States were invaded in the 12th century. Of the invaded, none prospered."
