otherness
Americannoun
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the state or fact of being different or distinct.
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the quality or state of being perceived or treated as different, foreign, strange, etc..
Certain ethnic groups embrace their otherness.
noun
Etymology
Origin of otherness
Example Sentences
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“Not knowing is a quasi-Buddhist value,” Haraway, author of The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, said to the LA Review of Books.
From The Verge • Jul. 22, 2022
Nevertheless, those roots and feeling of Otherness continue to be felt throughout the novel in Antonia's reluctant assistance of the undocumented Mexican workers in her Vermont town.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2020
The totality amounted to a continual homage to a defiant multifaceted Otherness that was central to her finely detailed paintings and captured in staged photographs.
From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2019
"Otherness," let the record once again show, goes out the window when empathy for our confounding common humanity is stirred by artists unafraid of complexity.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2015
I am consummate when my Self, the resistant solid, is reduced and diffused into all that which is Not-Me: my neighbour, my enemy, the great Otherness.
From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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