Foreignness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The condition of being foreign; irrelevancy; want of natural connection with the surroundings.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness.
  • noun. A characteristic that indicates foreignness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of being alien or not native
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    "Yet the merit of this formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness is entirely Shamsie's."
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