foreignness
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- the quality of being alien or not native“the strangeness of a foreigner”Synonyms: strangenesscuriousnessType of qualityKinds alienage, exoticismAttribute of foreign, strange
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
For′eign·ness noun
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.— John Locke
A foreignness of complexion.— pseud. of Mary Ann
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54