aliety

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin alietas, from Latin alius (“other”).

Noun

aliety (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The state of being different; otherness.
   • 1700, John Sergeant, Transnatural Philosophy, or Metaphysicks:

     But in our case there are but Two single Attributes, viz, Self-Knowing and Self-Loving, and yet each of those single Attributes imports Distinction and Aliety, (if I may use that word) in it's own Particular Notion.

References

• “aliety”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• tailye