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单词 alterity
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Definition of alterity in English:

alterity

noun alˈtɛrɪtiɒlˈtɛrɪtiôlˈterədē
mass nounformal
  • The state of being other or different; otherness.

    the problem of alterity occurs also in homogeneous societies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the inherited and still influential constructions of Africa, the continent designates difference and alterity.
    • Whether or not it is applied to a given foreigner has more to do with that foreigner's ability to reduce marks of alterity than his or her physical characteristics, per se.
    • But it is perhaps in that space of radical alterity evoked by poetic images that we can enter into a productive dialogue with the subjects of these exhibitions.
    • It was in 1492, of course, that Columbus discovered the New World, which soon thereafter became a colonial space virtually defined by its alterity, the fact that it was not the Old World.
    • Indeed, I sometimes put the matter this way: the clearest way to domesticate the otherness of the other is to talk about alterity.
    • I also wonder whether there is a term in psychoanalytic theory for this perception of our body's radical alterity.
    • Finally, how are the absorbing questions of alterity and alienation treated by a postcolonial or displaced subject in an autobiographical novel written from such an elsewhere?
    • According to Derrida, Levinas underestimates not only the elusiveness of alterity but the degree of respect for alterity already present in earlier thinkers.
    • Then, the essay explains that the public sphere of early print is founded on alterity, on Otherness, on the non-English and even the anti-English.
    • If readers are to be enriched and informed by alterity, they must be willing actively to imagine an Other completely different - in time, space, and perception.
    • As Self and Other become potentially interchangeable, the voluntary adoption of alterity becomes the most significant, and authoritative, act of autonomy possible to the human subject.
    • Here, the author dips into complex arguments about sex, gender, reason, and alterity that I still find impenetrable and bordering on the metaphysical.
    • In the novel, set forty years later, Armenian whiteness is defined in contradistinction to the racial alterity of Native Americans, another group that has suffered genocide.
    • Within many anti-colonial and civil rights struggles, those in control of discursive practices have often silenced voices of alterity in order to unify a people in the struggle against colonial, hegemonic orders.
    • However I do accept that just using language which is ‘neutral’ does not eliminate alterity.
    • The concluding chapter draws together the diverse strands of alterity explored to that point while examining alterity in history.
    • McMaster understands alterity as a dialectic of self and otherness.
    • In my terminology otherness or alterity is definitional, and specifically polar (the two terms of a polar opposition are jointly exhaustive and mutually exclusive).
    • Likewise, contemporary comparatist discussions of cultural alterity may blur rather than sharpen historical distinctions and our sense of the otherness of the past.
    • The dialectical view, built on the inevitable production of alterity and the necessarily differential structure of language, entails predictable consequences.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from late Latin alteritas, from alter 'other'.

 
 

Definition of alterity in US English:

alterity

nounôlˈterədē
formal
  • The state of being other or different; otherness.

    the problem of alterity occurs also in homogeneous societies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Here, the author dips into complex arguments about sex, gender, reason, and alterity that I still find impenetrable and bordering on the metaphysical.
    • The concluding chapter draws together the diverse strands of alterity explored to that point while examining alterity in history.
    • According to Derrida, Levinas underestimates not only the elusiveness of alterity but the degree of respect for alterity already present in earlier thinkers.
    • In my terminology otherness or alterity is definitional, and specifically polar (the two terms of a polar opposition are jointly exhaustive and mutually exclusive).
    • In the inherited and still influential constructions of Africa, the continent designates difference and alterity.
    • It was in 1492, of course, that Columbus discovered the New World, which soon thereafter became a colonial space virtually defined by its alterity, the fact that it was not the Old World.
    • As Self and Other become potentially interchangeable, the voluntary adoption of alterity becomes the most significant, and authoritative, act of autonomy possible to the human subject.
    • However I do accept that just using language which is ‘neutral’ does not eliminate alterity.
    • McMaster understands alterity as a dialectic of self and otherness.
    • In the novel, set forty years later, Armenian whiteness is defined in contradistinction to the racial alterity of Native Americans, another group that has suffered genocide.
    • Indeed, I sometimes put the matter this way: the clearest way to domesticate the otherness of the other is to talk about alterity.
    • Then, the essay explains that the public sphere of early print is founded on alterity, on Otherness, on the non-English and even the anti-English.
    • Likewise, contemporary comparatist discussions of cultural alterity may blur rather than sharpen historical distinctions and our sense of the otherness of the past.
    • The dialectical view, built on the inevitable production of alterity and the necessarily differential structure of language, entails predictable consequences.
    • Within many anti-colonial and civil rights struggles, those in control of discursive practices have often silenced voices of alterity in order to unify a people in the struggle against colonial, hegemonic orders.
    • If readers are to be enriched and informed by alterity, they must be willing actively to imagine an Other completely different - in time, space, and perception.
    • But it is perhaps in that space of radical alterity evoked by poetic images that we can enter into a productive dialogue with the subjects of these exhibitions.
    • Finally, how are the absorbing questions of alterity and alienation treated by a postcolonial or displaced subject in an autobiographical novel written from such an elsewhere?
    • I also wonder whether there is a term in psychoanalytic theory for this perception of our body's radical alterity.
    • Whether or not it is applied to a given foreigner has more to do with that foreigner's ability to reduce marks of alterity than his or her physical characteristics, per se.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from late Latin alteritas, from alter ‘other’.

 
 
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