Associations to the word «Foreignness»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

FOREIGNNESS, noun. The quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats