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otherness

otherness

6 8.0
Being seen as different from most people or from what is usual
  • noun
  • /ˈʌðərnəs/
  • Jargon
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  • This can raise feelings of sadness, losses, and otherness and confusion in your child.
  • the rhetoric of otherness
  • signs of otherness
  • difference and otherness

This can raise feelings of sadness, losses, and otherness and confusion in your child.

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Examples

  • Outside of history, in its limits, mother and daughter know their otherness, for they represent the necessary condition of historical intelligibility.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Indeed, this is what this novel chiefly explores: the place of otherness in the social order.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Or we could think about this moment of otherness within itself.

  • And I think part of that was understanding the otherness of somebody who is his body is foreign to him.

  • This... this, I think, has a kind of wonderful otherness to it, you know.

  • To me, the way I would describe it is this course is about the otherness of the past.

  • Freedom from the need to acknowledge otherness as human.

  • Their stubborn individuality forced me to acknowledge otherness in a new way and to question some of my most cherished assumptions.

    Academic text (2011)
  • As Jones (2014a) argued, school communities determine how they define difference and otherness based on socialized belief systems.

    Academic text (2015)
  • For many kids with diabetes, grappling with the sense of otherness is as tough as the condition itself.

Synonyms

distinctiveness
vsotherness
4 6.0

A quality that makes someone or something stand out from others

is about general difference from usual or expected qualities
dissimilarity
vsotherness
3 4.5

A state when two things or people are not alike

covers being different from what people expect or know
separateness
vsotherness
2 6.6

A situation where things are kept apart from others, for example work and personal life

denotes difference from what is familiar rather than physical distance
alterity
vsotherness
  • Formal
1 9.9

A state of being different from others, often in culture or identity

is the general quality of being different from the familiar or expected
apartness
vsotherness
1 6.7

A state of being separate from other people

means being different from the usual or expected, not only isolated
alienness
vsotherness
1 8.1

A feeling of being strange or not belonging

refers to difference from familiar or expected things, not only oddness
differentness
vsotherness
1 6.3

The fact that two things are not the same

focuses on difference from the usual or the familiar
distinctness
vsotherness
1 5.6

Being clearly different from others

refers to being different from familiar patterns or expectations
outsiderness
vsotherness
1 7.7

Feeling separate from a group or community

expresses being different from familiar norms rather than emotional exclusion
unlikeness
vsotherness
7.1

Not being the same as another thing

refers to being different from what is usual or typical
unsimilarity
vsotherness
9.0

A difference that shows two or more things are not the same

highlights difference from familiar or expected features
disparateness
vsotherness
9.2

A big difference between things that are not similar

means being different from what is familiar rather than related

Antonyms

157 2.7

A likeness between things that makes them seem related

10 3.4

A relaxed friendly way of behaving toward people you know well

How Different

otherness
  • Jargon
6 8.0
similarity
157 2.7
sameness
10 4.2

Surface Forms

otherness singular
othernesses plural

Morphology

otherness = other (transparent) = other + ness

A straightforward nominalization of the adjective 'other' with the productive suffix '-ness' yielding 'the quality of being other,' which learners can derive from the base.

Etymology

Otherness starts with other, which simply means 'not the same', and adds the ending -ness, which means 'a state or quality'. So otherness is the state of being different from what is familiar, usual, or expected.