English

Noun

altarity ‎(uncountable)

1. (philosophy) otherness exalted as if a religious concept
   • 2001, Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist, Encyclopedia of postmodernism

     In his deconstruction of the modern subject via the thought of altarity, Taylor relies on the critique of Hegel developed in twentieth-century France...

   • 2005, Henry L. Ruf, Postmodern rationality, social criticism, and religion

     Sacred altarity is the indescribable other that makes the describable possible...

   • 2010, Jason Schwager,

     altarity is the sense rising from the altar of separation insulating a culture, religion, people, from those defined as outside due to their otherness.