otherhood

otherhood

English

Etymology

other +‎ -hood

Noun

otherhood (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being other.
   • 1994, Norbert Wiley, The Semiotic Self, University of Chicago Press (1994), →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 (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 (2010), →ISBN, page 275:

     The result is a life of “otherhood” where the individual is divided from any sense of community or social identity.

Synonyms

• otherness