otherness
Example Sentences
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"Let's keep celebrating the otherness," she said during her acceptance speech.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
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 • Jan. 5, 2026
But the sense of otherness remained, even after Carlile married and had two kids with British charity director Catherine Shepherd.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025
Amidst current events, what's really solidified my identity as a Jew is a sense of otherness and separateness from the rest of the community — a feeling that I’ve experienced for most of my life.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2023
In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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