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OTHERNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does otherness mean?
• OTHERNESS (noun)
The noun OTHERNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known
Familiarity information: OTHERNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
distinctness; otherness; separateness
Hypernyms ("otherness" is a kind of...):
difference (the quality of being unlike or dissimilar)
Attribute:
other (not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied)
Derivation:
other (very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected)
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