Otherdom

Quick meaning: Otherdom is a noun meaning (rare) The state, condition, or existence of others; the tendency toward preferring, serving, or doing for others; selflessness.

Meaning

(rare) The state, condition, or existence of others; the tendency toward preferring, serving, or doing for others; selflessness.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

I can think of three good reasons why the hospital should move us out to the margins of "otherdom." For one, there are twenty-one letters in our merged Unitarian Universalist name. "Other" is short, with only five. Then there is the fact that in .

Word Forms

• otherdoms

Antonyms for otherdom

Common opposites include self-centeredness, selfishness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include otherhood, omnibenevolence, loverdom, domaniality, selflessness, unselfishness.

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