otherness

oth·er·ness

noun \ˈə-thər-nəs\

Definition of OTHERNESS

1

: the quality or state of being other or different

2

: something that is other or different

Examples of OTHERNESS

1. As an American growing up in Africa, I always felt a sense of otherness.
2. the otherness of their small religious community

First Known Use of OTHERNESS

1587

Related to OTHERNESS

Synonyms

contrast, disagreement, discrepancy, disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, diverseness, diversity, difference, unlikeness

Antonyms

alikeness, analogousness, analogy, community, likeness, resemblance, sameness, similarity

Related Words

deviance, divergence; differentiability, discriminability, distinguishability; change, modification, variation; conflict, discord, discordance, dissension (also dissention), dissent, dissidence, disunity, friction, strife; variability, variance; anomalousness, dichotomy, incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, nonconformity; disproportion, imbalance, inequality, nonequivalence

Near Antonyms

identicalness, identity; accordance, agreement, conformity, congruity, correspondence, parallelism, similitude; equality, equivalence, equivalency; homogeneity, homogeneousness, uniformity