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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈfɔɹən.nəs/

名詞

foreignness (countable and uncountable, plural foreignnesses)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness.
   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 165:

     The same courteous, automatic greeting […] which by now I understood as a nod to my foreignness, which was obvious to everyone everywhere.

   • 2019 January 30, Naty, “Dear gringos, the Portuguese word “Saudade” doesn’t mean what you make it sound like”, in Naty's Bookshelf‎:

     The word “saudade” is being quite misused for what looks like to be a need for adding romantic foreignness to a story or an article.

2. (countable) A characteristic that indicates foreignness.

アナグラム

• foresensing