alterity

alterity (countable and uncountable, plural alterities)

1. (philosophy, anthropology) Otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed.
   • 2014, Dan Lusthaus, Buddhist Phenomenology, →ISBN:

     Nominal declensions, verbal case endings, gerundival constructions, in short, the full range of grammatical alterations—for which Sanskrit has a particular genius and meticulous order—announce language itself as a field of alterity.

• otherness

• alterous