Usually means: Treating people as fundamentally different.
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  1. othering: Merriam-Webster
  2. othering: Wordnik
  3. othering: Wiktionary
  4. Othering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Othering: Legal dictionary

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  1. Othering: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Other)

adjective:  See other (determiner) below.
adjective:  Second.
adjective:  Alien.
adjective:  Different.
adjective:  (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
noun:  An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.
noun:  The other one; the second of two.
adverb:  (obsolete) Otherwise.
verb:  (transitive) To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
verb:  (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
noun:  (philosophy, psychoanalysis) Radical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a separate entity; “other people” altogether in their difference from oneself.
noun:  A surname.
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