• Otherish

    Origin

    From other + -ish. Cognate with Dutch anders ("different").

    Full definition of otherish

    Adjective

    otherish

    1. Pertaining to or being of another kind; different.
      • 2007, Charlotte Sleigh, Six legs better: a cultural history of myrmecology:This likens the insect to another otherish human―not impossibly cruel this time, but impossibly brilliant.
    2. Concerned with or directed toward others; selfless.
      • 1884, James Hinton, The law-breaker and the coming of the law:About the word "altruistic" and the suggestion of "otherish," the real meaning of the difficulty about a word for "regard to others," is that we do not want it.
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