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Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations
Section III. Quantity
4. Concrete Quantity

57. Extraneousness.

   NOUN:EXTRANEOUSNESS &c. adj.; extrinsicality [See Extrinsicality]; exteriority [See Exteriority]; alienage, alienism.
  foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element.
  ALIEN, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo [L.], newcomer, new chum [colloq., Australia], jackaroo [Australia], griffin [Anglo-Ind.]; recruit, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander; outsider, outlander [archaic], barbarian, extern [rare], tramontane [rare], ultramontane; Guinea [slang, U. S.], Wop [Slang, U. S.], Dago [slang], Chink [slang], kike [slang], sheeny [slang], mick [slang], nigger [colloq.], Easterner [U. S.], Dutchman, tenderfoot [slang].
   ADJECTIVE:EXTRANEOUS, foreign, alien, ulterior, exterior, external, outlandish, outside, outland [archaic]; barbaric, barbarian, metic, oversea, tramontane [rare], ultramontane.
  EXCLUDED [See Exclusion]; inadmissible; exceptional.
   ADVERB:ABROAD, in foreign parts, in foreign lands; beyond seas; oversea, overseas; on one’s travels.