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n. - The quality of being alien or not native.

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  • Yet the merit of this formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness is entirely Shamsie's.
  • But he writes and speaks perfect English so the foreignness is a bit of a mystery.
  • For all the accusations of his "foreignness," it was he who understood where and how the electorate had felt shortchanged.
  • Thubron is best of the three at representing the sheer feel of foreignness which is at the heart of the enterprise of travel writing.
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