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FOREIGNNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being alien or not native
Example:
the strangeness of a foreigner
Synonyms:
curiousness; foreignness; strangeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("foreignness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Attribute:
foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foreignness"):
exoticism; exoticness; exotism (the quality of being exotic)
alienage; alienism (the quality of being alien)
Antonym:
nativeness (the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin)
Derivation:
foreign (not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something)
