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Foreignness

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n. The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness.

n. A characteristic that indicates foreignness.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The condition of being foreign; irrelevancy; want of natural connection with the surroundings.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of being alien or not native

Word Usage

"The final damning evidence of my foreignness was my grandmother herself, when she appeared in school on those days set aside for parents to visit classes."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

quality

Hyponym

exoticness alienism exotism exoticism alienage

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

remoteness

Same Context

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