On this page you'll find 5 example sentences with Foreignness. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as strangeness or quality and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Foreignness in a sentence
Foreignness meaning
- The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness.
- A characteristic that indicates foreignness.
Synonyms of Foreignness
Using Foreignness
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality of being, appearing, or being perceived as foreign; exoticness, otherness. | A characteristic that indicates foreignness.
- Useful related words include: strangeness, curiousness, quality, nativeness.
- In the example corpus, foreignness often appears in combinations such as: of foreignness.
Context around Foreignness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Foreignness
- In this selection, "foreignness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include badge of foreignness in urban and conrad s foreignness a positive. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "foreignness" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with foreignness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Foreignness always will “trump any similarities,” Stewart says. (8 words)
She had thought Conrad's foreignness a positive merit. (9 words)
What is more, these are the same people who, in another breath, harp on the foreignness of Christianity. (18 words)
Although practical for the desert dust, the Almoravids insisted on wearing the veil everywhere, as a badge of "foreignness" in urban settings, partly as a way of emphasizing their puritan credentials. (31 words)
It’s only ever asked of people of colour, and their answers are never good enough if they don’t meet a pre-set quota of foreignness. (27 words)
What is more, these are the same people who, in another breath, harp on the foreignness of Christianity. (18 words)
Example sentences (5)
What is more, these are the same people who, in another breath, harp on the foreignness of Christianity.
Foreignness always will “trump any similarities,” Stewart says.
It’s only ever asked of people of colour, and their answers are never good enough if they don’t meet a pre-set quota of foreignness.
Although practical for the desert dust, the Almoravids insisted on wearing the veil everywhere, as a badge of "foreignness" in urban settings, partly as a way of emphasizing their puritan credentials.
She had thought Conrad's foreignness a positive merit.
Common combinations with foreignness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of foreignness 2×