Word.ws English Dictionary

otherdom

otherdom noun: the state, condition, or existence of others; the tendency toward preferring, serving, or doing for others; selflessness.

Noun

otherdom (plural otherdoms)

  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
    • 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

Antonyms of otherdom

Forms of otherdom

pluralotherdoms

Origin of otherdom

From other + -dom.

Questions about otherdom

What does otherdom mean?
Otherdom means the state, condition, or existence of others; the tendency toward preferring, serving, or doing for others; selflessness.
What part of speech is otherdom?
Otherdom is a noun.
What is the plural of otherdom?
The plural of otherdom is otherdoms.

Words near otherdom in the dictionary

  1. other-worldly
  2. other-worldness
  3. Othera
  4. otherable
  5. otherdimensional
  6. otherdom
  7. otherdoms
  8. othere
  9. othered
  10. otherer
  11. otherers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: otherdom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “otherdom.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/otherdom. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.