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Definition of Alterity
1. n. The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise.
Definition of Alterity
1. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alterity
1. the state of being other or different [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Alterity
1. The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. "For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented." (Coleridge) Origin: F. Alterite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alterity
Literary usage of Alterity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies: Being Selections by Octavius Brooks Frothingham, John Wilson (1880)
"alterity; 3. Community. You may express the formula thus: — God, the Absolute
Will or ... It is the Hypostasis, As begetting his own alterity, the Jehovah, ..."
2. Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies: Being Selections by John Wilson, American Unitarian Association (1864)
"alterity; 3. Community. You may express the formula thus : — God, the Absolute
Will or ... As begetting his own alterity, the Jehovah, the Manifested, ..."
3. Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies: Being Selections by John Wilson (1884)
"alterity; 3. Community. You may express the formula thus: — God, the Absolute
Will or ... As begetting his own alterity, the Jehovah, the Manifested, ..."
4. The Legitimacy of International Organizations by Jean-Marc Coicaud (2001)
"In this sense, a principle concerned with struggle for and on behalf of alterity
cannot be read as an ethic of tolerance for the intolerable. ..."
5. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1870)
"That which is subjectively affirmed in the paternal relation is uttered and
objectively realized in the filial alterity. . . . If we have succeeded in ..."
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