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Meanings of foreignness in English

Catalan
estranyesa

The quality of being alien or not native.

estranyesa
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Examples for "strangeness"
Examples for "strangeness"
1
For all its strangeness, the situation was a problem of logistics again.
The Naked God
2
And now begins the actual strangeness of the story of the Telegraph.
Steam, Steel and Electricity
3
Then rub it off, Polly; rub the rust and the strangeness off.
Villette
4
We have got used to much strangeness over the past two months.
The Irish Times
5
One of the problems with the early space foods was their strangeness.
Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
1
Loristan looked at his hot twelve-year-old face with a reflective curiousness.
The Lost Prince
2
At the sound of his voice the woman peered at him with quick curiousness.
Love of Life, and Other Stories
3
The detective glanced at the girl with an expression of aroused curiousness as he said:
The "Dock Rats" of New York; Or, The Smuggler Band's Last Stand
4
I even reconciled Chaucer's spelling with the quaintness and curiousness of the old, old town.
At Home with the Jardines
5
The curiousness of the subject will, I hope, excuse my dwelling on it for some time.
A Treatise of Human Nature
Usage of foreignness in English
1
We mistake unfamiliarity for beauty; we darken our perceptions with idle foreignness.
Adventures in Friendship
2
This same foreignness, revealed in other ways, sometimes made him hate her.
The Trespasser
3
They, more than anything else, stress the foreignness of a place.
The Guardian
4
It was just too much foreignness to take in one dose.
The Forever War
5
His shoulders went up with that foreignness Chrystie thought so bewitching.
Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California
6
She felt the old, familiar shame of being singled out for her foreignness.
The favorites: a novel
7
Though Harker's foreignness accounts for his ignorance, his Englishness might make him particularly vulnerable.
Dracula Unearthed
8
Only its careful correctness betrayed the foreignness of his speech.
Hillsboro People
9
He resolved, for the sake of expediency, to put it down to her foreignness.
Lowboy
10
And the French bedstead, Charlotte added, with a constant sense of the lady's foreignness.
The Europeans
11
Had erased any last residue of foreignness, and named her daughter "Drew."
Russian Winter
12
She had reveled in the mild foreignness of it.
Main Street
13
This abstract relation brings also to consciousness the foreignness of the spiritual idea to natural phenomena.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
14
I was overwhelmed by my sense of foreignness and wished I could go back to Mogadishu.
The new yorker
15
He was paralyzed and bewildered by her foreignness.
The Europeans
16
Does foreignness help propel your comedy writing?
Reuters
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