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Contrariety vs Alterity - What's the difference?

contrariety | alterity |

As nouns the difference between contrariety and alterity

is that contrariety is opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast while alterity is otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed.

contrariety

English

Noun

(contrarieties)
  • Opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:What differences of sense and reason, what contrarietie of imaginations doth the diversitie of our passions present unto us?
  • * 1759 , (Laurence Sterne), The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p.61:
  • *:This contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble.
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) :
  • *:The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, thee was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken.
  • *2011 , Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement , 21 Sep.:
  • *:At the heart of his argument is the contrariety between day and night, light and dark.

    • alterity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia alterity)
  • (philosophy, anthropology) Otherness; the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed.

    • Derived terms

    * altarity