otherness
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- noun
- /ˈʌðərnəs/
- Jargon
- This can raise feelings of sadness, losses, and otherness and confusion in your child.
- the rhetoric of otherness
- signs of otherness
- difference and otherness
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Watch on YouTubeThis can raise feelings of sadness, losses, and otherness and confusion in your child.
- This can raise feelings of sadness, losses, and otherness and confusion in your child.
- What more shall we do to others, to otherness?
- And I think part of that was understanding the otherness of somebody who is his body is foreign to him.
Examples
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Outside of history, in its limits, mother and daughter know their otherness, for they represent the necessary condition of historical intelligibility.
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Indeed, this is what this novel chiefly explores: the place of otherness in the social order.
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Or we could think about this moment of otherness within itself.
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And I think part of that was understanding the otherness of somebody who is his body is foreign to him.
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This... this, I think, has a kind of wonderful otherness to it, you know.
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To me, the way I would describe it is this course is about the otherness of the past.
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Freedom from the need to acknowledge otherness as human.
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Their stubborn individuality forced me to acknowledge otherness in a new way and to question some of my most cherished assumptions.
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As Jones (2014a) argued, school communities determine how they define difference and otherness based on socialized belief systems.
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For many kids with diabetes, grappling with the sense of otherness is as tough as the condition itself.
Synonyms
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A quality that makes someone or something stand out from others
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A situation where things are kept apart from others, for example work and personal life
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A state when two things or people are not alike
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A state of being different from others, often in culture or identity
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A state of being separate from other people
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A feeling of being strange or not belonging
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Being clearly different from others
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The fact that two things are not the same
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Feeling separate from a group or community
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Not being the same as another thing
A difference that shows two or more things are not the same
A big difference between things that are not similar
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
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.