otherkin

American  

[uhth-er-kin] / ˈʌð ərˌkɪn /

adjective

1. of or relating to the belief or feeling that one's soul or essence is partly or fully something other than human, such as believing one’s core identity to be a mythological creature, fictional character, or animal.

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noun

1. a member of a community of people who believe or feel that their soul or essence is partly or fully something other than human, such as a mythological creature, fictional character, or animal.

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• otherkin
  plural

Etymology

Origin of otherkin

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, in the sense “different kind of, other kinds of”; current sense dates from 1990–95; variant of original otherkind (coined in the magazine Elfkind Digest and modeled on elfinkind “race of elves”); other ( def. ) + kin ( def. )