Usually means: Unfamiliarity originating from another place.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word Foreignness:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. foreignness: Merriam-Webster
  2. foreignness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foreignness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. foreignness: Vocabulary.com
  5. foreignness: Wordnik
  6. foreignness: Wiktionary
  7. Foreignness, foreignness: Dictionary.com
  8. Foreignness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. foreignness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. foreignness: Rhymezone
  11. Foreignness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. foreignness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. foreignness: FreeDictionary.org
  14. foreignness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Foreignness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. foreignness: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. foreignness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foreignness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. foreignness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. foreignness: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (foreignness)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness.
▸ noun:  (countable) A characteristic that indicates foreignness.

Similar:
curiousness, strangeness, exoticness, exoticity, otherness, differentness, exoticism, exoticalness, alienness, other-worldliness, more...

Opposite:
familiarity, nativeness, domesticity

Types:
alien, exotic, unfamiliar, strange, unusual, more...

Adjectives:
very, own, essential, utter, such, swarthy, cultural, certain, exotic, double, apparent

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Similar:
curiousness, strangeness, exoticness, exoticity, otherness, differentness, exoticism, exoticalness, alienness, other-worldliness, more...

Opposite:
familiarity, nativeness, domesticity

Types:
alien, exotic, unfamiliar, strange, unusual, more...

Adjectives:
very, own, essential, utter, such, swarthy, cultural, certain, exotic, double, apparent



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