Hypertext Webster Gateway: "foreignness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Foreignness \For"eign*ness\, n.
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. --Locke.

A foreignness of complexion. --G. Eliot.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

foreignness
n : the quality of being alien or not native: "the strangeness
of a foreigner" [syn: {strangeness}, {curiousness}] [ant:
{nativeness}]


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