Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

altarity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: al-tar-i-ty
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Otherness exalted as if a religious concept.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In his deconstruction of the modern subject via the thought of altarity, Taylor relies on the critique of Hegel developed in twentieth-century France..."
"Sacred altarity is the indescribable other that makes the describable possible..."
"altarity is the sense rising from the altar of separation insulating a culture, religion, people, from those defined as outside due to their otherness."

Etymology

Coined by Mark C. Taylor in Altarity (1987), from altar and alterity.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does altarity mean?: Otherness exalted as if a religious concept.
Where does altarity come from?: Coined by Mark C. Taylor in Altarity (1987), from altar and alterity.

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