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What does otherness mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being different or distinct.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being different or distinct.
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In my terminology otherness or alterity is definitional, and specifically polar.
The otherness of ego enwraps each of us like a prison, but the magus takes all of earth as his body.
Few films have so fluently, so poignantly and amusingly, described contemporary Britons' attempts to overcome the shock of otherness.
And in this scrutiny and disapproval my issues with class and otherness have resurfaced, again in relation to an academic environment.
I want to insist, however, that in the case of his funeral orations, Derrida's concern for presence and otherness is not merely theoretical.
For us, real marionettes, string marionettes, produced those moments of otherness, they created a spell, something very unnerving, disquieting.

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