Othering

Quick meaning: Othering is a noun meaning (philosophy, politics) gerund of other: the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as essentially alien or different.

Meaning

(philosophy, politics) gerund of other: the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as essentially alien or different.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of other

Example Sentences

The process of political othering was not simply a rhetorical consequence of the Revolution's own unifying political culture.

Australians are conscious of multiple Otherings, both oppressive and affectionate. As white Australians locate Aboriginal people metaphorically "out there," so the rest of the world locates us all "down under."

The ambivalence of colonial discourse lies in the fact that both these processes of ‘othering’ occur at the same time, the colonial subject being both a ‘child’ of empire and a primitive and degraded subject of imperial discourse.

[T]he Ego discerns itself, distinguishes itself, others itself; this Otherness is, as contrasted with the first phase, its being Out-of-Itself, and, since the Othering is a making itself an object to itself, it is also its being For-Itself; [...]

Word Forms

• otherings

Synonyms for othering

Depending on context, synonyms include alienation, discrimination, otherization.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include else, different, new, past, early, opposite.

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