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foreignness

[ UK /fˈɒɹənnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being alien or not native
    the strangeness of a foreigner

How To Use foreignness In A Sentence

  • Why ener this jungle of foreignness where everything is new, strange and difficult? "There Are No Cats In America."
  • This study introduces the notion of alliance portfolio internationalization (API), which refers to the degree of foreignness of partners in a firm's collection of immediate alliance relationships.
  • John McCain has not commented on Rep. King's remarks, but I will say that this has been an issue that both - that both Sen. Obama and his wife have addressed on the campaign trail before, Michelle Obama most emphatically, saying that his name, the name Hussein, has been invoked to stir fear and anxiety about "foreignness," "otherness," and it's something that the Democratic party should not tolerate in this election season. CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2008
  • Alfredson is Swedish, which may account for his detachment in viewing the film's setting as another country with three layers of 'foreignness' - the recent past, Britain, and the machinations within the Circus. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • On the one hand, the orthographical apparatus supports the supposed inferiority of black dialect as ‘broken’ English; on the other hand, italicizing Yiddish words underlines their unassimilated foreignness.
  • The East through Western eyes has throughout history been seen as the ultimate symbol of foreignness, the most exotic of lands and people.
  • You can be born in Swindon and still have that sense of slight foreignness, alienation and critical detachment from the society in which you live; a sense that is essential to being an intellectual.
  • The fact of Madame Olenska's "foreignness" could hardly have been more adroitly emphasised than by this farewell tribute; and Mrs. van der Luyden accepted her displacement with an affability which left no doubt as to her approval. The Age of Innocence
  • In other words, is there something about the foreignness of China, the fact that it's a different -- you know, it looks different culturally, civilizationally -- that makes people more suspicious? CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2008
  • Mr. Obama will have to acknowledge the "foreignness" of foreign lands. Obama's Persian Tutorial
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