Alterous

Quick meaning: Alterous is an adjective meaning Pertaining to or characterized by alterity (otherness, the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed); other.

Meaning

Pertaining to or characterized by alterity (otherness, the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed); other.

More Meanings

1. (LGBTQ) Pertaining to or characterized by an attraction to someone which is intermediate between platonic and romantic.

Example Sentences

These attractions might include, but are not limited to: sexual, romantic, platonic, aesthetic, and alterous attractions.

These include: the (nonsexual, nonromantic) aesthetic attraction, platonic attraction, sensual attraction and alterous attraction. Together, these complexify the field of attraction per se to the point that the heterosexual matrix becomes […]

The appeal from things is an appeal to abandon oneself to things, to give oneself to alterous relations, and therefore to make of oneself a gift, […] How to celebrate things in their alterity becomes the ethical question waiting for an answer.

Titchkosky suggests that disability can be a discursive mechanism for analyzing intersections of different (and alterous) […] it can serve as a prime discursive field where the meaning of alterity under contemporary conditions can be considered.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include otherish, otherly, alteregoistic, otherlandish, androgynous, alloxenic.

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