FOREIGNNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foreignness mean? 

• FOREIGNNESS (noun)
  The noun FOREIGNNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being alien or not native

  Familiarity information: FOREIGNNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREIGNNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being alien or not native

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

curiousness; foreignness; strangeness

Context example:

the strangeness of a foreigner

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)