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Meaning of FOREIGNNESS

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

FOREIGNNESS is a 11 letter word that starts with F.

 

 Synonyms: curiousness, strangeness
 
 Antonyms: nativeness
 
 See Also: alienage, alienism, exoticism, exoticness, exotism, quality

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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.

 

 

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