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UK
/ˈʌðənəs/
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[ US /ˈəðɝnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈəðɝnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known
How To Use otherness In A Sentence
- Besides the floor upon floor, shelf upon shelf of books, there was that element of feng shui, not simply location but the geomancy of that locus, its spiritual otherness.
- Before the internet arrived to form the perfect delivery mechanism for mystical bluster, it was left to partwork magazines to provide a fix of 'otherness', made 'real' by the paucity of information and the scrappy, fragmentary way it was presented ( Things magazine
- It's an image that is rife with a frank sexuality that isn't shy to speak up for its otherness.
- These writers, increasingly referred to as the third generation of Francophone writers, have thematized identity and otherness as conditioned by their location in the diasporic and/or exilic space.
- I've already suggested that female otherness is an overdetermined feature in a genre that tends to describe an object of visual pleasure and fascination from a masculine perspective, often to an audience understood to be masculine as well. Ekphrasis and the Other
- In my terminology otherness or alterity is definitional, and specifically polar (the two terms of a polar opposition are jointly exhaustive and mutually exclusive).
- McMaster understands alterity as a dialectic of self and otherness.
- Genuine respect for ‘otherness’ entails much more than modern religious pluralism can deliver.
- Indeed, the most unstoppably undead monsters are almost always in some sense religious, figures of monstrously divine or anti-divine otherness. Timothy Beal: There's No Such Thing As Osama Bin Laden
- Do everyday clothes as dance gear impact its otherness as an experience?