FOREIGNNESS

foreignness, strangeness, curiousness

(noun) the quality of being alien or not native; “the strangeness of a foreigner”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

foreignness (countable and uncountable, plural foreignnesses)

(uncountable) The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness.

(countable) A characteristic that indicates foreignness.

Anagrams

• foresensing

Source: Wiktionary


For"eign*ness, n.

Definition: The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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