otherdom
English
Noun
otherdom (plural otherdoms)
- (rare) The state, condition, or existence of others; the tendency toward preferring, serving, or doing for others; selflessness.
- 1908, Melvin Linwood Severy, Gillette's Industrial Solution: World Corporation:
- It is clearly shown that right and wrong are conditions of otherdom. That ethics, in short, is a meaningless term to a single, isolated individual.
- 1909, Bernard Shaw, Dramatic opinions and essays, with an apology:
- Altogether, I seriously recommend those of my readers who find a pantomime once a year good for them, to go next year to the Britannia, and leave the West End to its boredoms and all the otherdoms that make it so expensively dreary.
- 1997, David S. Blanchard,
- I can think of three good reasons why the hospital should move us out to the margins of "otherdom." For one, there are twenty-one letters in our merged Unitarian Universalist name. "Other" is short, with only five. Then there is the fact that in ...
- 1908, Melvin Linwood Severy, Gillette's Industrial Solution: World Corporation:
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