foreignness

foreignness
noun
the quality of being alien or not native
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the strangeness of a foreigner

Syn: ↑strangeness, ↑curiousness
Ant: ↑nativeness
Derivationally related forms: ↑curious (for: ↑curiousness), ↑foreign
Hypernyms: ↑quality
Hyponyms: ↑exoticism, ↑exoticness, ↑exotism, ↑alienage, ↑alienism
Attrubites: ↑foreign, ↑strange

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