Get to know Otherness better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like distinctness or separateness.
Otherness in a sentence
Otherness meaning
- The quality of being different or distinct.
- The result or product of being different or distinct.
Synonyms of Otherness
Using Otherness
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality of being different or distinct. | The result or product of being different or distinct.
- Useful related words include: distinctness, separateness, difference.
- In the example corpus, otherness often appears in combinations such as: of otherness, to otherness, the otherness.
Context around Otherness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Otherness
- In this selection, "otherness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fragmentary, queen, yorke, reasonably and comes stand out and add context to how "otherness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accept your otherness and alienation or otherness. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "otherness" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with otherness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
How do you accept your ‘otherness’? (6 words)
With this invisibility of otherness comes the benefits of whiteness. (10 words)
Often these characters are Jewish and have a sense of alienation or otherness. (13 words)
It can be challenging—the Japanese-English Sharpe plays what feels like a racial caricature—and yet, it’s all part of his strange take on otherness and finding one’s place in a world that seems built for other people. (41 words)
It’s only the Scottish Nationalists, they claim, who, for political reasons, like to present England and the English as fundamentally different to enhance a sense of otherness, that helps underpin their political cause for separation. (36 words)
Commercial aspects of fandom (such as magazines or books) can also be defined in terms of "otherness" and thus valid to consume: consumers purchasing independent or niche publications are discerning consumers, but the mainstream is denigrated. (36 words)
How do you accept your ‘otherness’? (6 words)
Example sentences (20)
Appearing in shades of doom and gloom, the song continues to resound with themes of unworthiness and a lack of self-esteem, the lyrics speaking to the otherness Yorke explained feeling in the quote above.
Having a drag storyteller read to kids is “a great way for them to experience diversity and otherness at a young age,” he said.
How do you accept your ‘otherness’?
It’s only the Scottish Nationalists, they claim, who, for political reasons, like to present England and the English as fundamentally different to enhance a sense of otherness, that helps underpin their political cause for separation.
Maybe Cypher intends Betty’s skin to stand in for the otherness of immigrants like Saeeda, her grandmother, and more specifically, her great-aunt Nuha.
Praying, one of the nuns tells the narrator, is “admitting yourself to otherness … it’s hard labour”.
Throughout, it is Wywrot’s instinctive understanding of the transformative possibilities of blur, grain and high contrast that imbues her portraits and landscapes with such a sustained atmosphere of fragmentary otherness.
It can be challenging—the Japanese-English Sharpe plays what feels like a racial caricature—and yet, it’s all part of his strange take on otherness and finding one’s place in a world that seems built for other people.
It’s in the pages of this book, in the consciousness of a writer admiring the world, so grateful for its otherness.
Now it wasn’t strangers lurking in dark alleyways we were told to fear but otherness more generally – those who did not look, sound or vote like us.
And tiki’s determined “exoticism,” with its cultural appropriations and discomfiting evocation of otherness, reasonably put some drinkers off.
They call upon people to embrace the values of moderation, to fulfil the imperatives of knowing one another and to raise awareness of otherness,” the King pointed out.
With this invisibility of otherness comes the benefits of whiteness.
Catherine Cottrell and Steven Neuberg explore how our behavioral responses to ‘otherness’ may enable the preservation of manners and norms.
Commercial aspects of fandom (such as magazines or books) can also be defined in terms of "otherness" and thus valid to consume: consumers purchasing independent or niche publications are discerning consumers, but the mainstream is denigrated.
Cultural norm manners are learnt through the enculturation and routinisation of ‘the familiar’ and through exposure to ‘otherness’ or those who are identified as foreign or different.
Often these characters are Jewish and have a sense of alienation or otherness.
Schwab, Gabriele (1996) "Chapter 2: Nonsense and Metacommunication: Alice in Wonderland" in The mirror and the killer-queen: otherness in literary language Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.
The Hegelian subject may therefore be characterized either as "self-restoring sameness" or else as "reflection in otherness within itself" (ibid.) In short, a subject in the Hegelian sense is subjected to subjection.
The quest for "Otherness" leads not only to maximize pleasure but also provides a pedagogical message to the us.
Common combinations with otherness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of otherness 5×
- to otherness 3×
- the otherness 2×
- otherness and 2×