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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state or quality of being other or different.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A philosophical and anthropological term for the 'other'. Cultural alterity is the process by which societies and cultures exclude particular people on account of their otherness.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise.

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