English

Noun

otherhood ‎(uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being other.
   • 1994, Norbert Wiley, The Semiotic Self, University of Chicago Press (1994), ISBN 9780226898162, page 131:

     This otherhood, itself based on solidarity with other human beings, provides the difference which evades paradox.

   • 1997, Adam B. Seligman, The Problem of Trust, Princeton University Press (2000), ISBN 9780691050201, page 48:

     The attempt to remake nature in terms of grace and to restructure the world according to other-worldly postulates resulted in the eventual loss of transcendent otherhood.

   • 2010, Robert Vanderlan, Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire, University of Pennsylvania Press (2010), ISBN 9780812205633, page 275:

     The result is a life of “otherhood” where the individual is divided from any sense of community or social identity.

Synonyms

• otherness