alterity

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alterity - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Alterity \Al*ter"i*ty\, n. [F. alt['e]rit['e].]
     The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. [R.]
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           For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity)
           rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented.
                                                    --Coleridge.
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