English

Noun

otherdom ‎(plural otherdoms)

1. (rare) The state, condition, or existence of others; the tendency toward preferring, serving, or doing for others; selflessness.
   • 1908, Melvin Linwood Severy, Gillette's Industrial Solution: World Corporation:

     It is clearly shown that right and wrong are conditions of otherdom. That ethics, in short, is a meaningless term to a single, isolated individual.

   • 1909, Bernard Shaw, Dramatic opinions and essays, with an apology:

     Altogether, I seriously recommend those of my readers who find a pantomime once a year good for them, to go next year to the Britannia, and leave the West End to its boredoms and all the otherdoms that make it so expensively dreary.

   • 1997, David S. Blanchard,

     I can think of three good reasons why the hospital should move us out to the margins of "otherdom." For one, there are twenty-one letters in our merged Unitarian Universalist name. "Other" is short, with only five. Then there is the fact that in ...

Antonyms

• self-centeredness, selfishness