othernessn.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vi. 87 There must needes bee euer both a selfesamenesse and also an anothernesse..the selfesameness in the Essence or beeing;..and the othernesse [Fr. diversité] is in the Inbeings or Persons.

1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. i. xiii. 83 Absolute perfection..without othernesse or change.

1821 S. T. Coleridge in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 249 Outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity), rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented.

1864 H. Bushnell Christ & his Salvation 342 The wonder of a true religious experience begun, that the soul, awakened to the consciousness of God, not knowing how, has a certain mysterious feeling of otherness imparted.

1872 E. Eggleston End of World 69 He brought them the odor of foreign travel, the flavor of city, the ‘otherness’ that everybody craves.

1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory I. 29 Negation..not absolute, but only relative, simply affirming otherness of being.

1907 Month July 10 The knower is still somehow marked off by otherness from the known.

1919 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Feb. 104/2 The German himself is vaguely aware of otherness... He finds that the language of his self-justification has no validity beyond the German frontiers.

1933 G. K. Chesterton St. Thomas Aquinas viii. 219 That strangeness of things, which is the light in all poetry, and indeed in all art, is really connected with this otherness.

1956 A. Huxley Heaven & Hell i. 10 The essential otherness of the mind's far continents, the complete autonomy and self-sufficiency of their inhabitants.

1957 Observer 8 Sept. 10/6 That quality which no political commentator ever seems able to convey: the essential otherness of Russia.

1975 C. N. Manlove Mod. Fantasy iv. 102 If..we were to grade these works according to the amount of ‘otherness’ or ‘fantasy’ present, that is, the degree of concern they show with either their secondary worlds or their supernaturalism.

1987 P. Auster Country of Last Things (1988) ii They walk around with a strange smile on their face, and a weird glow of otherness hovers around them.

1988 L. Appignanesi Simone de Beauvoir i. 3 These early heady days of the women's movement, when so many of us were engaged in uncovering and championing the very fact of our otherness.

1988 Art Feb. 9/3 The tragedy becomes paradoxically the consecration of Jewish otherness in history.

1868 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 120 He is now conscious not of himself only, but of a certain otherness moving in him.

1888 R. Potter Relation Ethics to Relig. 76 That otherness which He calls into existence is independent of all phenomena.

1892 W. S. Lilly Great Enigma 141 I am directly conscious of it as an otherness; a non-self.

1930 E. I. Watkin tr. E. Przywara in M. C. D'Arcy et al. Monument to St. Augustine viii. 267 The rigid ‘boundary’ which separates us from the ‘otherness’, the ‘absolutely different’.

1973 MLN 88 716 The myth functions..not as a vivifying source of being, but as an otherness which dwarfs the specific individual.

1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Jan. 77/3 (advt.) The conflict between the subjective ‘I’ of the poet and the otherness he invokes in his poetry.

1985 A. Carter Black Venus 68 The flowers have names, nothing is unknown—this kind of wilderness is not an otherness.

1996 Amer. Lit. 68 819 (title) Montage of an Otherness deferred: dreaming subjectivity in Langston Hughes.