foreignness
English
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Latin -ānus
Vulgar Latin *forānus
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English foreignness
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɔɹən.nəs/
Noun
foreignness (countable and uncountable, plural foreignnesses)
- (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.
- 2019 January 30, Naty, “Dear gringos, the Portuguese word “Saudade” doesn’t mean what you make it sound like”, in Naty's Bookshelf[1], archived from the original on 19 September 2026:
- The word “saudade” is being quite misused for what looks like to be a need for adding romantic foreignness to a story or an article.
- (countable) A characteristic that indicates foreignness.
Translations
quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign
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