Other
The English word “Other” has 1 meaning listed here.
proper noun
- Radical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a separate entity; “other people” altogether in their difference from oneself.
Etymology
Calque of French autre (other). Semantic loan from French Autre, principally after French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (also as grand Autre) and philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.
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