Alterity

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:44:27

Al*ter"i*ty (#), n. [F. alt'erit'e.]

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.

 

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