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Selfless vs Otherish - What's the difference?

selfless | otherish |

As adjectives the difference between selfless and otherish

is that selfless is having, exhibiting or motivated by no concern for oneself but for others; unselfish while otherish is pertaining to or being of another kind; different.

selfless

English

(wikipedia selfless)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having, exhibiting or motivated by no concern for oneself but for others; unselfish.
    • In a selfless act of gratitude for saving his mother's life, Peter committed to giving money to his local breast cancer charity each year for the rest of his life.

    Derived terms

    * selflessness

    otherish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • 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.