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

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