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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Du Bois has never looked more usefully prescient than in the present, when Otherness, in its many varieties, is at once widely acknowledged and under vicious, reactive siege.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023
“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
In her book Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People and Significant Otherness, Haraway argues that this relationship holds the key to the future of environmentalism.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2020
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
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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