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otherness

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Synonyms and Antonyms of otherness

the quality or state of being different

from an early age he could sense that there was an otherness about him—he was somehow different from the other kids

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

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 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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