foreignness

foreign +‎ -ness

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹən.nəs/

foreignness (countable and uncountable, plural foreignnesses)

1. (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.

2. (countable) A characteristic that indicates foreignness.

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