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othernesses

othernesses is the plural of otherness.

Meaning of otherness

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.

Questions about othernesses

What is othernesses the plural of?
Othernesses is the plural of otherness.

Words near othernesses in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: othernesses (page history and authors); otherness (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.

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