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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the quality of being alien or not native;
- Example: "the strangeness of a foreigner"
[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. [1913 Webster] A foreignness of complexion. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
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]