foreignness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

foreignness
    n 1: the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness
         of a foreigner" [syn: {foreignness}, {strangeness},
         {curiousness}] [ant: {nativeness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Foreignness \For"eign*ness\, n.
   The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or
   appropriateness.
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         Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from
         endeavoring to set me right.             --Locke.
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         A foreignness of complexion.             --G. Eliot.
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