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Foreignness

noun
1.
The quality of being alien or not native.  Synonyms: curiousness, strangeness.






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"Foreignness" Quotes from Famous Books



... deeper feeling than a determination to adhere to the conventions of the time. These conventions ensure an effect of more or less devotional character, and this, coupled with our reverence for the name of Raffaelle, the sentiments arising from antiquity and foreignness, and the inability of most people to judge of the work on technical grounds, because they can neither paint nor draw, prevents us from seeing what a mere business picture it is and how poor the painting is throughout. A master ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler

... startled and fascinated by the foreignness of this arrangement, which recalled scenes in French fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of. That was how women with lovers lived in the wicked old societies, in ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton



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