aliety

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English

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin alietas, from Latin alius (other).

Noun

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aliety (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The state of being different; otherness.
    • 1700, John Sergeant, Transnatural Philosophy, or Metaphysicks:
      But in our case there are but Two single Attributes, viz, Self-Knowing and Self-Loving, and yet each of those single Attributes imports Distinction and Aliety, (if I may use that word) in it's own Particular Notion.

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