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What does foreignness mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness.
  2. (countable) A characteristic that indicates foreignness.
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The New Yorker watched, fascinated, as this exotic foreign food began to lose its foreignness and become, in various ways, American.
Because even in Egypt I have never belonged, but suddenly it hit me when we arrived in Greece that my foreignness gave me freedom.
Yet, in so doing, they gradually placed themselves in a position of foreignness to their own society.
So-called abstract painting is not abstract in the sense of a foreignness to life and humans.
Practical approaches were also apparently undermined by the foreignness of apparatus and irrelevance of curricula in rural settings.
The dilemma of foreignness comes down to one of liberty versus fraternity the pleasures of freedom versus the pleasures of belonging.

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