Definitions for: Foreignness


[n] the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: curiousness, strangeness

Antonyms: nativeness

See Also: alienage, alienism, exoticism, exoticness, exotism, quality

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