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UK
/ˈʌðənəs/
]
[ US /ˈəðɝnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈəðɝnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known
How To Use otherness In A Sentence
- The multinationals and their advertising companies were always quick to incorporate signs of otherness.
- And in this scrutiny and disapproval my issues with class and otherness have resurfaced, again in relation to an academic environment.
- God's difference is categorially different, so to speak, from one creature's otherness from a second creature. Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
- The abyss of ethnographic otherness has been momentarily bridged.
- Where the legal definitions of childhood were constructed in order to protect children against working in the mines until their bones grew soft from lack of sunlight or weaving rugs until their legs were crippled from sitting and they were going blind, these same definitions have been used to create target groups for "otherness" - and ugly otherness at that. Thinking with my fingers
- The otherness of early modern religious agents and culture is translated into (for us) more acceptable modern forms conformable to our own cultural assumptions.
- Whilst ‘interesting’ camera angles always suggest a lower budget, here they serve to accentuate this place's otherness.
- Tim's Sri Lankan experiences led him to consider how just as a snake sheds its skin, so too can we shed our fear of otherness, and learn to embrace other cultures.
- Music poses an enormous challenge to a writer: its abstraction refutes description, but its very otherness can be liberating.
- Such smoothing over of differences, however, would have diminished the powerful sense of otherness that is such a valuable aspect of the book.