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countable and uncountable, plural foreignnesses
(uncountable) The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness. quotations examples
The same courteous, automatic greeting […] which by now I understood as a nod to my foreignness, which was obvious to everyone everywhere.
2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, page 165
(countable) A characteristic that indicates foreignness. examples