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What does otherness mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being different or distinct.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being different or distinct.
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Such smoothing over of differences, however, would have diminished the powerful sense of otherness that is such a valuable aspect of the book.
In my terminology otherness or alterity is definitional, and specifically polar.
For us, real marionettes, string marionettes, produced those moments of otherness, they created a spell, something very unnerving, disquieting.
In his many evocations, he renders his sense of place and otherness with deliberate diction and well-placed references.
I want to insist, however, that in the case of his funeral orations, Derrida's concern for presence and otherness is not merely theoretical.
Cannibalism was one method of establishing otherness in early modern representations of all three groups.

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