foreignness

Variant of foreign

adjective

  1. situated outside one's own country, province, locality, etc.: foreign lands
  2. of, from, or characteristic of another country or countries: foreign languages
  3. having to do with the relations of one country to another country or countries: foreign affairs, foreign trade
  4. not subject to the laws or jurisdiction of the specified country
    1. not natural to the person or thing specified; not belonging; not characteristic: a trait foreign to one's nature
    2. not pertinent; irrelevant
  5. not organically belonging; introduced from outside: said of substances found in parts of the body or in organisms where they do not naturally occur

Origin: ME forein < OFr forein, forain < LL foranus, foreign, orig., external < L foras, out-of-doors, orig. acc. pl. of OL fora, door

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