alterity

English

Noun

alterity (countable and uncountable, plural alterities)

1. (philosophy, anthropology) Otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed.
   • 2014, Dan Lusthaus, Buddhist Phenomenology, →ISBN:

     Nominal declensions, verbal case endings, gerundival constructions, in short, the full range of grammatical alterations—for which Sanskrit has a particular genius and meticulous order—announce language itself as a field of alterity.

Synonyms

• otherness

Derived terms

• altarity
• alteritism

 

Related terms

• alterous

Translations

otherness

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: anders zijn
• Finnish: toiseus (fi)
• French: altérité (fr) f
• German: Alterität (de) f
• Hungarian: másféleség, különbözőség (hu), másság (hu)
• Irish: eachtarthacht f, eileacht f
• Portuguese: alteridade (pt) f, outridade f
• Spanish: alteridad f