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otherhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From other + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being other.
    • The attempt to remake nature in terms of grace and to restructure the world according to other-worldly postulates resulted in the eventual loss of transcendent otherhood. 1997, Adam B. Seligman, The Problem of Trust, Princeton University Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 48:
    • This otherhood, itself based on solidarity with other human beings, provides the difference which evades paradox. 1994, Norbert Wiley, The Semiotic Self, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 131:
    • The result is a life of “otherhood” where the individual is divided from any sense of community or social identity. 2010, Robert Vanderlan, Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 275:

Synonyms

otherness