otherhood

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English

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Etymology

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From other +‎ -hood.

Noun

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otherhood (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being other.
    • 1994, Norbert Wiley, The Semiotic Self, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 131:
      This otherhood, itself based on solidarity with other human beings, provides the difference which evades paradox.
    • 1997, Adam B. Seligman, The Problem of Trust, Princeton University Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 48:
      The attempt to remake nature in terms of grace and to restructure the world according to other-worldly postulates resulted in the eventual loss of transcendent otherhood.
    • 2010, Robert Vanderlan, Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 275:
      The result is a life of “otherhood” where the individual is divided from any sense of community or social identity.

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