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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