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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

altérité

The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise.

[R.]

For outness is but the feeling of otherness (

alterity

) rendered intuitive, or

alterity

visually represented.

Coleridge.

alterity ‎(countable and uncountable, plural alterities)

(philosophy, anthropology) Otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed.

otherness