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单词 other-worldness
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other-worldnessn.

Brit. /ˌʌðəˈwəːldnəs/, U.S. /ˌəðərˈwər(ə)ldnəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: other world adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < other world adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier otherworldliness n. and also otherworldism n.
Otherworldliness.
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1872 Proc. National Baptist Educ. Convent. 87 At this testimony an able and well-nigh dominant school of philosophy contemptuously sneer, and stigmatize it as ‘other-worldness’.
1915 J. London Jacket i. 1 These child glimpses are of other-worldness, of other-lifeness, of things that you had never seen in this particular world of your particular life.
1956 I. Bromige Enchanted Garden ii. ii. 87 It was an expressive face. In repose, it had an appealing wistfulness, an other-worldness.
1961 P. Dougherty Mother Mary Potter iii. 35 In the Portsea-Southsea district..Mary's persevering and unobtrusive other-worldness was inevitably discussed.
1990 Callaloo 13 839 Matthew Bondsman's performance creates a sense of an other-worldness that is indescribable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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