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• foreignness — noun the quality of being alien or not native the strangeness of a foreigner • Syn: ↑strangeness, ↑curiousness • Ant: ↑nativeness • Derivationally related forms: ↑curious ( …   Useful english dictionary

• foreignness — n. quality of being foreign, strangeness, unfamiliarity …   English contemporary dictionary

• strangeness — n. 1. Foreignness. 2. Distance, reserve, coldness, shyness, uncommunicativeness. 3. Uncouthness, oddness, singularity, eccentricity, grotesqueness. 4. Estrangement, alienation, mutual dislike. 5. Wonderfulness, marvellousness, uncommonness …   New dictionary of synonyms

• curiousness — noun 1. a state of active curiosity • Syn: ↑inquisitiveness • Derivationally related forms: ↑inquisitive (for: ↑inquisitiveness), ↑curious (for: ↑inqu …   Useful english dictionary

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

• Peregrinity — Per e*grin i*ty, n. [L. peregrinitas: cf. F. p[ e]r[ e]grinit[ e].] 1. Foreignness; strangeness. [Obs.] Somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect. Johnson. [1913 Webster] 2. Travel; wandering. [R.] Carlyle. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• outlandishness — aÊŠt lændɪʃnɪs n. strangeness; unusualness; foreignness …   English contemporary dictionary

• extremity — n 1. limit, outer limit, farthest point, horizon, the end of the earth; ambit, bound, boundary, border, frontier; periphery, margin, edge, rim, brim, brow, lip, ridge, verge, brink; ultimate, end, finale, termination, terminal, terminus. 2. limb …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• alienism — noun 1. an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness • Usage Domain: ↑archaism, ↑archaicism • Hypernyms: ↑psychiatry, ↑psychopathology, ↑psychological medicine 2. the quality of being alien …   Useful english dictionary

• exoticism — noun the quality of being exotic he loved the exoticism of Egypt • Syn: ↑exoticness, ↑exotism • Derivationally related forms: ↑exotic (for: ↑exoticness) …   Useful english dictionary

• exoticness — noun the quality of being exotic he loved the exoticism of Egypt • Syn: ↑exoticism, ↑exotism • Derivationally related forms: ↑exotic • Hypernyms: ↑foreignness, ↑strange …   Useful english dictionary