alterity

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alterity (countable and uncountable, plural alterities)

  1. (philosophy, anthropology) Otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed.
    • 2014, Dan Lusthaus, Buddhist Phenomenology, →ISBN:
      Nominal declensions, verbal case endings, gerundival constructions, in short, the full range of grammatical alterations—for which Sanskrit has a particular genius and meticulous order—announce language itself as a field of alterity.

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