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for·eign

(fôr′ĭn, fŏr′-)

adj.

a. Located away from one's native country: on business in a foreign city.

b. Of, characteristic of, or from a place or country other than the one being considered: a foreign custom.

c. Conducted or involved with other nations or governments; not domestic: foreign trade.

2. Situated in an abnormal or improper place in the body and typically introduced from outside: a foreign object in the eye.

3. Not natural; alien: Jealousy is foreign to her nature.

4. Not germane; irrelevant.

5. Subject to the jurisdiction of another political unit.

[Middle English forein, from Old French forain, from Late Latin forānus, on the outside, from Latin forās, outside; see dhwer- in Indo-European roots.]

for′eign·ness n.

Synonyms: foreign, alien, exotic, strange
These adjectives mean of, from, or characteristic of another place or part of the world: a foreign accent; alien customs; exotic birds; moved to a strange city.

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Noun

foreignness - the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner"

curiousness, strangeness

quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare

exoticism, exoticness, exotism - the quality of being exotic; "he loved the exoticism of Egypt"

alienage, alienism - the quality of being alien

nativeness - the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin

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natura differente stranezza

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Moreover, he had a swarthy foreignness of complexion which boded little honesty.

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Rather were her words touched by a foreignness so elusive that Saxon could not analyze nor place it.

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Nioche, timorously, and with a double foreignness of accent.

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His foreignness had a peculiar and indelible stamp.

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The story of his conquest of Sindh as the origins of Islam in the sub-continent reifies the idea of Muslim foreignness to the land, cultures, religions, histories of the sub-continent.

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So long, farewell, goodbye, Theresa May-In the language of the European Union, whose pesky foreignness brought about your demise - auf wiedersehen and adieu.

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The mosque for him stands for various kinds of otherness; extremism, foreignness, supremacy (through acquiring property).

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Much of the alarm hovering at the borders, the gates, is stoked, it seems to me, by (1) both the threat and the promise of globalism and (2) an uneasy relationship with our own foreignness, our own rapidly disintegrating sense of belonging.

Globalism has lots to offer but we have lost a sense of who we are

It is predicated on the notion of the performativity of translation, the Benjaminian foreignness of languages which is untranslatable and irresolvable, catalyzes the birthing of newness, the concept of culture-specific universality, and the ethical moment of being for and respecting the Other.