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foreignness

noun
/ˈfɔɹən.nəs/US

Etymology

From foreign + -ness.

  1. derived from forās
  2. derived from *forānus✻
  3. derived from forain
  4. inherited from foreyn
  5. suffixed as foreignness — “foreign + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign

    The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness.

    • The same courteous, automatic greeting […] which by now I understood as a nod to my foreignness, which was obvious to everyone everywhere.
    • The word “saudade” is being quite misused for what looks like to be a need for adding romantic foreignness to a story or an article.

  2. A characteristic that indicates foreignness.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foreignness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA