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foreignness

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Foreignness \For"eign*ness\, n.
   The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or
   appropriateness.

         Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from
         endeavoring to set me right.             --Locke.

         A foreignness of complexion.             --G. Eliot.

Source : WordNet®

foreignness
     n : the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness
         of a foreigner" [syn: {strangeness}, {curiousness}] [ant:
          {nativeness}]
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