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Meaning of Foreignness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
ˈfɔɹən.nəs

Definitions

  1. The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness.
  2. A characteristic that indicates foreignness.

Equivalents

العربية الإغتراب
Čeština cizost
Deutsch Fremdheit
Ελληνικά ξενικότητα
Español ajenidad
Français extranéité
עברית לועזיות
Latviešu svešums
Português estrangeirismo
Русский чу́ждость

Examples

The same courteous, automatic greeting […] which by now I understood as a nod to my foreignness, which was obvious to everyone everywhere.”
The wordsaudade” is being quite misused for what looks like to be a need for adding romantic foreignness to a story or an article.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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