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  • noun Plural form of otherness.

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  • "othernesses," and two forms of (apparently) impossible translation and exchange: (1) the conversion of the visual representation into a verbal representation, either by description or ventriloquism; (2) the reconversion of the verbal representation back into the visual object in the reception of the reader.

    Ekphrasis and the Other William John Thomas 1994

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