otherness
Example Sentences
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Ishmaelle finds this man’s presence a comfort and his otherness to be reassuring in the way it mirrors her own exile from home, her gender and from land itself.
From Los Angeles Times
But the sense of otherness remained, even after Carlile married and had two kids with British charity director Catherine Shepherd.
From BBC
Amina’s sleepwalking—a concept inconceivable to the villagers, who think the town is haunted—gets her in trouble, and is here a manifestation of her “otherness” and innate resistance to the community’s rigidity.
How are these collaborations a small resistance to that cruel way of seeing otherness?
From Los Angeles Times
As a Kryptonian raised on Earth by human parents, the character has been shown in stories where he struggles with his own sense of otherness and belonging because he straddles two worlds.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
