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Foreignness

The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.

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Alienage 76% connected

The state or legal condition of being an alien.

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Alienism 76% connected

The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.

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Exoticism 76% connected

The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Curious 74% connected

Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

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Curious 74% connected

Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

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Foreign 66% connected

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.

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Foreign 66% connected

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.

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Strange 66% connected

Belonging to another country; foreign.

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Strange 66% connected

Belonging to another country; foreign.

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Curiousness 92% connected

Carefulness; painstaking.

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Strangeness 92% connected

The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).

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Ability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

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Accuracy noun · 86% connection

(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much grea…

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Adequacy noun · 86% connection

the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"

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Air noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Appearance noun · 86% connection

outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

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Aridity noun · 86% connection

the quality of yielding nothing of value

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Asset noun · 86% connection

a useful or valuable quality

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Atmosphere noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Attraction noun · 86% connection

the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him"

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Aura noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Bad noun · 86% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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Badness noun · 86% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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Barrenness noun · 86% connection

the quality of yielding nothing of value

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Believability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Brachycephalism noun · 86% connection

the quality of being brachycephalic

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Brachycephaly noun · 86% connection

the quality of being brachycephalic

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Credibility noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Credibleness noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Alien adjective · 78% connection

not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the myst…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: foreign, remoteness, want, relation, appropriateness.
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Amongst preposition · 78% connection

Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: foreign, remoteness, want, relation, appropriateness.
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Aptness noun · 78% connection

Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.

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Authentic noun · 78% connection

Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octav…

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Case noun · 78% connection

One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words,…

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Consanguinity noun · 78% connection

The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity;…

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Correlate verb · 78% connection

To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena.

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Correlation noun · 78% connection

Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place…

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Correspondence noun · 78% connection

Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.

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Cross adjective · 78% connection

Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as…

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Distance noun · 78% connection

Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.

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Domestic adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and dom…

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Envoy noun · 78% connection

One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or…

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