Usually means: Recognition of difference in others.
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  1. alterity: Merriam-Webster
  2. alterity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alterity: Collins English Dictionary
  4. alterity: Wordnik
  5. alterity: Wiktionary
  6. alterity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Alterity, alterity: Dictionary.com
  8. Alterity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Alterity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. alterity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Alterity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. alterity: FreeDictionary.org
  13. alterity: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. Alterity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. alterity: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alterity)

▸ noun:  (philosophy, anthropology) Otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed.

Similar:
aliety, otherwiseness, altarity, otherness, otherhood, entity, alternateness, foreignness, quoddity, differentness, more...

Opposite:
sameness, identity, similarity

Types:
cultural, linguistic, gender, racial, religious, sexual orientation, disability, age, more...

Adjectives:
radical, absolute, irreducible, cultural, own, racial, infinite, feminine, pure, sexual, very

Colors:
    indigo,     teal,     mauve,     chartreuse,     cerulean, more...

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Similar:
aliety, otherwiseness, altarity, otherness, otherhood, entity, alternateness, foreignness, quoddity, differentness, more...

Opposite:
sameness, identity, similarity

Types:
cultural, linguistic, gender, racial, religious, sexual orientation, disability, age, more...

Adjectives:
radical, absolute, irreducible, cultural, own, racial, infinite, feminine, pure, sexual, very

Colors:
    indigo,     teal,     mauve,     chartreuse,     cerulean, more...



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