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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ALTERITY

Al *ter "i *ty, n. Etym: [F. altérité. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

alterity

al ter i ty |ôlˈteritē ɔlˈtɛrəti | ▶noun formal the state of being other or different; otherness. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from late Latin alteritas, from alter ‘other. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

alterity

alterity |alˈtɛrɪti, ɒl- | ▶noun [ mass noun ] formal the state of being other or different; otherness. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from late Latin alteritas, from alter ‘other ’.