otherness
otherness Lexical Profile
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• noun
The quality or fact of being different, distinct, or separate from oneself or from an established standard.
"The novel explores the profound sense of otherness experienced by immigrants adapting to an unfamiliar culture."
The state of being perceived or treated by a dominant social group as fundamentally alien, inferior, or excluded (in sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies).
"Postcolonial theorists have long examined how colonial literature constructed the otherness of indigenous populations."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in Old English as oðernes, from oðer ('other') and the noun-forming suffix -nes ('-ness'). Its modern philosophical and sociological sense of radical alterity was popularized in the 20th century through translations of Continental philosophy.