Otherness
[ʌðәnis]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known.
Editor: Rudolf--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
Editor: Ozzie
Examples
- It was a gladness above all, that this remained to look forward to, the pure inhuman otherness of death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- For she was to him what he was to her, the immemorial magnificence of mystic, palpable, real otherness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In spite of his otherness, the old blood beat up in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Rex