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Definition of Foreignness
1. Noun. The quality of being alien or not native. "The strangeness of a foreigner"
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Exoticism, Exoticness, Exotism, Alienage, Alienism
Attributes: Foreign, Strange
Derivative terms: Curious, Foreign
Antonyms: Nativeness
Definition of Foreignness
1. n. The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.
Definition of Foreignness
1. Noun. The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness. ¹
2. Noun. A characteristic that indicates foreignness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foreignness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreignness
Literary usage of Foreignness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary History of Russia by Aleksander Brückner, Ellis H. Minns (1908)
"... as the author of the "Annals of a Sportsman"—His foreignness—Appreciation of
the author—His various works : " Rudin," "A Nest of Gentlefolk," " On the ..."
2. The Trespasser by David Herbert Lawrence (1912)
"This same foreignness, revealed in other ways, sometimes made him hate her.
It was as if she would sacrifice him rather than renounce her foreign birth. ..."
3. The Journal of Cancer Research (1916)
"In the consideration of foreignness or unlikeness, what else could be ... Thus the
conception of foreignness or unlikeness not only furnishes a basis for ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"Foreign- born citizens and the institutions which have cherished foreignness,
are going to be brought to the judgment bar of this Republic. ..."
5. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"Thus the conception of foreignness or unlikeness not only furnishes a basis for
tumor immunity, but also makes more comprehensible the inheritance of ..."
6. A Source-book of Military Law and War-time Legislation by John Henry Wigmore, United States War Dept. Committee on Education and Special Training (1919)
"Foreign-born citizens and the institutions which have cherished foreignness are
going to be brought to the judgment bar of this Republic. ..."
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