| 释义 |
otherness|ˈʌðənɪs|
[f. other a. + -ness.]
The quality of being other; difference, diversity.
1587Golding De Mornay vi. (1617) 84 There must needs be alwaies both a selfesamenesse and also an anothernesse..the selfesameness in the Essence or being;..and the othernesse is in the In beings or Persons. 1625Gill Sacr. Philos. i. 83 Absolute perfection..without othernesse or change. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. I. 29 Negation..not absolute, but only relative, simply affirming otherness of being. 1893Sidgwick Process Argt. 143 The relation of sequence involves the relation of ‘otherness’.
b. transf. The fact of being other; something that is other (than the thing mentioned, or than the thinking subject).
1821Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. X. 249 Outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity), rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. 1868Bushnell Serm. Liv. Subj. 120 He is now conscious not of himself only, but of a certain otherness moving in him. 1888R. Potter Relat. Ethics to Relig. 76 That otherness which He calls into existence is independent of all phenomena. 1892W. S. Lilly Gt. Enigma 141, I am directly conscious of it as an otherness; a non-self. |