Otherness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Otherness is a noun meaning (uncountable) The quality of being different or distinct.
Meaning
(uncountable) The quality of being different or distinct.
More Meanings
- (countable) The result or product of being different or distinct.
Example Sentences
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 hierarchical otherness, unequal resource allocation and modes of inferiorisation (see also Anthias 1998a).
Word Forms
- othernesses
Synonyms for otherness
Depending on context, synonyms include alterity, difference, otherhood, distinctness, separateness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include distinctness, separateness, difference, differentiation, alterity, alienness.
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