View synonyms for otherness

otherness

[ uhth-er-nis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the state or fact of being different or distinct.
the quality or state of being perceived or treated as different, foreign, strange, etc.:
Certain ethnic groups embrace their otherness.

ˈotherness

/ ˈʌðənɪs /

First recorded in 1580–90; other + -ness

Only Too—ticky helps him learn to respect them in their otherness.

It also nudges us toward a different view of the brain—in which a bit more otherness is present, intertwined with self.

When I entered middle school, I was crushingly self-conscious of my otherness.

I “embrace” my “otherness,” to spew that overused phrase of early '90s identity reclamation.

Church spokesman Michael Purdy describes the ads as an attempt to downplay Mormon “otherness.”

It is the "otherness," not the sameness, which makes Him desirable and potent in the daily round of life.

But that is because He offers the most intelligible approach to that very "otherness" in the person of the godhead.

Matter is not identical with otherness itself, but with that part of otherness which is opposed to real beings, and to reasons.

If it be otherness-in-itself, it is so not because it is something qualified, because quality is not something qualified.

If this thing be only other, it is not such by itself, it is so only by otherness, as a thing that is identical by identity.

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