Crossword clues for foreignness
foreignness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foreignness \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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness. 2 (context countable English) A characteristic that indicates foreignness.
WordNet
n. the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" [syn: strangeness, curiousness] [ant: nativeness]
Usage examples of "foreignness".
They sent him by prearrangement: because in his very foreignness, his conspicuousness and seeming detachment, he could learn what Terrans might not.
They sent him by prearrangement: because in bis very foreignness, his conspicuousness and seeming detachment, he could learn what Terrans might not.
When, following Keith's course (and Nicola's silence), he suggested her apartment, she murmured demurringly about her 'reputation', which reassured Guy, as did her accent, whose faint foreignness now seemed not French so much as something more East European and intellectual.
The bank, Gemütlich, her reputation, his youth, his foreignness, their ages, the warmth, the wine, the odor, the strength, the lips.
But in the case of Anastasia this foreignness was the more conspicuous for its contrast with our obscure intimacy: I had never bit Max in a sidecar, after all, or serviced him memorially, or declared to him despite myself (strange words) "I love you!