Foreignness
81outlandishness — aÊŠt lændɪʃnɪs n. strangeness; unusualness; foreignness …
82foreign — [ fɒrɪn, fɒrən] adjective 1》 from, in, or characteristic of a country or language other than one s own. ↘dealing with or relating to other countries. 2》 coming or introduced from outside. 3》 (usu. foreign to) unfamiliar or uncharacteristic.… …
83strangeness — n. 1. Foreignness. 2. Distance, reserve, coldness, shyness, uncommunicativeness. 3. Uncouthness, oddness, singularity, eccentricity, grotesqueness. 4. Estrangement, alienation, mutual dislike. 5. Wonderfulness, marvellousness, uncommonness …
84foreign — adjective 1 not from your own country or the country you are talking about: Can you speak any foreign languages? | foreign tourists | I thought she sounded foreign. 2 (only before noun) involving or dealing with other countries: America s foreign …
85extremity — n 1. limit, outer limit, farthest point, horizon, the end of the earth; ambit, bound, boundary, border, frontier; periphery, margin, edge, rim, brim, brow, lip, ridge, verge, brink; ultimate, end, finale, termination, terminal, terminus. 2. limb …
86Kun, Bela — (1886–1939) Bela Kun was a Hungarian communist leader who was active in the Bolshevik Party before becoming a victim of Josef Stalin’s purges. Born in Transylvania in 1886 Kun’s career in radical politics began as a journalist for a radical… …
87immunogenicity — n. the property that enables a substance to provoke an immune response, including foreignness (see antigen), size, route of entry into the body, dose, number and length of exposures to the antigen, and host genetic make up …
88foreign — /ˈfɒrən / (say foruhn) adjective 1. relating to, characteristic of, or derived from another country or nation; not native or domestic. 2. relating to relations or dealings with other countries. 3. external to one s own country or nation: a… …
89French words and phrases used in English — 1. English has been receptive to words and phrases from French for several centuries. The process has been continuous although there are two periods of special importance: the years after the Norman Conquest (11c), and the time of the French… …
90Gallicisms — Fowler (1926) used this term to describe what he called ‘borrowings of various kinds from French in which the borrower stops short of using French words without disguise’. That is to say, they are words that have been assimilated in various ways …