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The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.

The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.

The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7.

The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.

State of being forlorn. Boyle.

The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread. Boyle.

State of being forsworn. [R.]

Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.

The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.

The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.

The quality or condition of being foul.

The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.

The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness. [Scot.] [The Whigs'] foziness can no longer be concealed. Blackwood's.

The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity. G. Eliot.

Frailty.

The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.

The state of being freckled.

The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

The quality of being frequent.

The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.