Alterity

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  • n. Otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or quality of being other or different.
    • Word Usage
    "Indeed, my hermeneutic principles, which insist that any notion of alterity is inevitably determined by reference to the subject who constructs it and thus by reference to our present, forbid me to imagine, let alone to lobby for, any such transcendental object of historical knowledge and desire."
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