Even when a loan-word enters both English and American simultaneously a sense of foreignness lingers about it on the other side of the Atlantic much longer than on this side, and it is used with far more self-consciousness.
It loses much of its foreignness at once, and is thus easier to absorb.
A touch of foreignness still lingers about millions of them, even in the country of their birth.
From a pragmatic point of view the difference between living against a background of foreignness and one of intimacy means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.
I have begun by shutting ourselves up to intimacy and foreignness because that makes so generally interesting a contrast, and because it will conveniently introduce a farther contrast to which I wish this hour to lead.
The intimacy and the foreignness cannot be written down as simply coexisting.
First, one word more than what I said last time about the relative foreignness of the divine principle in the philosophy of the absolute.
Having an environment, being in time, and working out a history just like ourselves, he escapes from the foreignness from all that is human, of the static timeless perfect absolute.
Thus doesforeignness get banished from our world, and far more so when we take the system of it pluralistically than when we take it monistically.
The all-form or monistic form makes the foreignness result, the each-form or pluralistic form leaves the intimacy undisturbed.
Remember that one of our troubles with that was its essential foreignness and monstrosity--there really is no other word for it than that.
The contrast is rough enough, and can be cut across by all sorts of other divisions, drawn from other points of view than that of foreignness and intimacy.
The more so as the necessary foreignness of the absolute is cancelled emotionally by its attribute of totality, which is universally considered to carry the further attribute of perfection in its train.
Each one must sacrifice his life and possessions to the other and each person be loving to all the inhabitants of the world, rending asunder the curtain of foreignness and consorting with all the people with union and accord.
Such intimacy of embrace, and such utter foreignness of contact!
He could not bear to be near her, and know the utter foreignness between them, know how entirely they were strangers to each other.
His face expressed intelligence and was very much alive; it had the further distinction that it often struck superficial observers with a certain foreignness of cast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreignness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
