otherness

What does otherness mean?

otherness means "the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known".

How many syllables are in otherness?

otherness has 3 syllables: ot-her-ness. The stress falls on "ot". In IPA it is /ˈʌðɚnəs/.

What is another word for otherness?

Close synonyms include distinctness, separateness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is otherness a common word?

otherness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for otherness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.