| 释义 |
otherliness rare.|ˈʌðəlɪnɪs|
[f. other a. + -ness; cf. -ly1.]
The quality of being different or apart in some way.
1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment ii. i. 194 That eery odour of otherliness, of vagrancy and jugglery which surrounds Mr. Abramowitz. 1967E. Grierson Crime of one's Own x. 86 It was another fault of the romantic spirit to imagine that..agents..[had] some special quality of ‘otherliness’, whereas their very profession must demand the opposite. 1976A. Koestler in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 101 Do I really consider myself a member of a chosen race... If not, what right have I to go on..inflicting on my children the stigma of otherliness? |