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foreignness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun foreignness has 1 sense
- foreignness(n = noun.attribute) curiousness, strangeness - the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" is a kind of quality
has particulars: exoticism, exoticness, exotism, alienage, alienism
Derived form adjective foreign3
Antonym: nativeness
CIDE DICTIONARY
foreignness, n.
The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. [1913 Webster]
"Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right."
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"A foreignness of complexion."
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