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otherness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of otherness

the quality or state of being different

Peter the Great wished to rid Russia of its otherness and make it more like the great European powers of the day.

Synonyms of otherness

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

Words Related to otherness

deviance, divergence

differentiability, discriminability, distinguishability

change, modification, variation

variability, variance

anomalousness, dichotomy, incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, nonconformity

Near Antonyms of otherness

identicalness, identity

accordance, agreement, conformity, congruity, correspondence, parallelism, similitude

equality, equivalence, equivalency

homogeneity, homogeneousness, uniformity

Antonyms of otherness

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

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