otherness

Example Sentences

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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

Penfolds refers to these blends as "wine of the world", and says that they "possess an otherness that can best be described as worldly".

From BBC • Jan. 24, 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

And yet, despite the discipline required for such a routine — an articulation of sameness that has become an endless exercise in self-inflicted otherness — neither of them would acknowledge it as an affect.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2023

In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli