Dictionary

otherdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From other + -dom.

Meanings

1. (rare) The state, condition, or existence of others; the tendency toward preferring, serving, or doing for others; selflessness.
   • It is clearly shown that right and wrong are conditions of otherdom. That ethics, in short, is a meaningless term to a single, isolated individual. 1908, Melvin Linwood Severy, Gillette's Industrial Solution: World Corporation:
   • I can think of three good reasons why the hospital should move us out to the margins of "otherdom." For one, there are twenty-one letters in our merged Unitarian Universalist name. "Other" is short, with only five. Then there is the fact that in ... 1997, David S. Blanchard, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
   • Altogether, I seriously recommend those of my readers who find a pantomime once a year good for them, to go next year to the Britannia, and leave the West End to its boredoms and all the otherdoms that make it so expensively dreary. 1909, Bernard Shaw, Dramatic opinions and essays, with an apology:

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Antonyms

self-centeredness · selfishness