Othername詞源 1

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  human-sciencesmedicinephilosophyRadical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a separate entity; “other people” altogether in their difference from oneself.

  • In its most fundamental dimension, sacrifice is a “gift of reconciliation” to the Other, destined to appease its desire. Sacrifice conceals the abyss of the Other’s desire, more precisely: it conceals the Other’s lack, inconsistency, “inexistence,” that transpires in this desire. Sacrifice is a guarantee that “the Other exists” […]
  • The transformations of writing bear an ethical as well as an aesthetic or literary significance; writing implies orientation towards the Other in the midst of which a renewal of the self becomes possible.

Othername詞源 2

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  A surname.

Othername詞源 3

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  A male given name from Old Norse, of rare usage, used as an aristocratic heritage familial given name.

otheradj/ˈʌðə/

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  See other (determiner) below.

  • Pick up the phone and find out who's on the other end.
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  Second.

  • I get paid every other week.
• 3

  formalAlien.

  • In Matthew's account, the law remains intact, as does virtually everything except that critical belief in Jesus as the Messiah (obviously no small thing), and this is not enough to make Matthew completely other from its Jewish origins.
• 4

  Different.

  • it is inherent, rather, in the revolutionary attempt of the West to externalize the idea of a source of meaning wholly other than what is embodied in human conventions and hierarchies.
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  obsoleteLeft, as opposed to right.

  • A diſtaffe in her other hand ſhe had, / Vpon the which ſhe litle ſpinnes, but ſpils, / And faynes to weaue falſe tales and leaſings bad, / To throw amongſt the good, which others had diſprad.

othernoun/ˈʌðə/

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  An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.

  • I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
  • Show me one other.
• 2

  The other one; the second of two.

  • One boat is not better than the other.
  • Why not tell one or other of your parents?

otherdet/ˈʌðə/

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  Not the one or ones previously referred to.

  • Earning less than $2,000 a month, I have no other source of income except for gifts from relatives.
  • The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

otheradv/ˈʌðə/

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  obsoleteOtherwise.

  • I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest, Lay down my soul at state; if you think other, Remove your thought;
  • Weigh also, the pretty escape of the disguised attempt of the party that seemed to be in so great peril, who can believe other, then that it was a made matter, to continue a belief, whom they think they have inchaunted at their wills.

otherverb/ˈʌðə/

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  To regard, label, or treat as an “other”, as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.

  • "Rican" is code for its homonym, "redskin," through which they othered this non-Mexican ethnic group.
  • That is, whilst Lesfest organisers are othering women who are not born female (thus producing a kind of lesbian-normativity), the Australian WOMAN Network is othering women who have not had surgical sex reassignment (thus producing a kind of "trans-normativity").
• 2

  To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.

  • In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had been othered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.