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otherness

otherness noun: the quality of being different or distinct.

Noun

otherness (countable and uncountable, plural othernesses)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being different or distinct.
    • As Floya Anthias argues in her chapter, there is a need to fight against all those constructions of difference and identity that exclude and devalorise, and against all those social practices that construct identities and differences in naturalised, collectivised and binary ways and in terms of...2002, Floya Anthias, Cathie Lloyd, Rethinking Anti-racisms: From Theory to Practice, →ISBN, page 9
  2. (countable) The result or product of being different or distinct.

Synonyms of otherness

Forms of otherness

pluralothernesses

Origin of otherness

From other + -ness.

Questions about otherness

What does otherness mean?
Otherness means the quality of being different or distinct.
What part of speech is otherness?
Otherness is a noun.
What is the plural of otherness?
The plural of otherness is othernesses.

Words near otherness in the dictionary

  1. otherlinks
  2. otherly
  3. otherly abled
  4. othermother
  5. othermothers
  6. otherness
  7. othernesses
  8. otherpaw
  9. otherpaws
  10. others
  11. othersome

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