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[syn: foreignness, strangeness, curiousness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Foreignness \For"eign*ness\, 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. --Locke.
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A foreignness of complexion. --G. Eliot.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
foreignness
n 1: the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness
of a foreigner" [syn: foreignness, strangeness,
curiousness] [ant: nativeness]