otherness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known

From other + -ness.

No otherness being left to annoy us, we should sit down at peace. — The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, William James
She looked at Ken, in a black silk kimono, serenely sipping his sake and looking the essence of cultivated, tantalizing otherness. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
Millard took life less seriously than she did, but perhaps that very otherness was agreeable: when one is prone by nature to travel dusty paths and dutifully to wound one's feet on mountainous rocky roads, a companion who habitually beckons to green sward and shady seats, who makes life put on a little more of the air of a picnic excursion into the world, is a source of refreshment. — The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York, Edward Eggleston

distinctness, separateness

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