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The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.

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  1. n. The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.
  2. n. the quality of being alien or not native
  3. 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.
  4. The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation orappropriateness.Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring toset me right. Locke.A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
  5. n:100 n. the quality of being alien or not native