foreignness
English
editEtymology
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edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɔɹən.nəs/
Noun
editforeignness (countable and uncountable, plural foreignnesses)
- (uncountable) The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness.
- 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 165:
- The same courteous, automatic greeting […] which by now I understood as a nod to my foreignness, which was obvious to everyone everywhere.
- (countable) A characteristic that indicates foreignness.
Translations
editquality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign
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