Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being otherwise.

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Examples

  • Phil's otherwiseness was always difficult to keep in bounds; it must not tyrannize these pages.

    Otherwise Phyllis Meredith Nicholson 1906

  • She was immensely grown up; there were new manifestations of her otherwiseness.

    Otherwise Phyllis Meredith Nicholson 1906

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