"otherdom" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: otherdoms [plural]
Etymology: From other + -dom. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|other|dom}} other + -dom Head templates: {{en-noun}} otherdom (plural otherdoms)
  1. (rare) The state, condition, or existence of others; the tendency toward preferring, serving, or doing for others; selflessness. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-otherdom-en-noun-QRf2L659 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -dom

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1908, Melvin Linwood Severy, Gillette's Industrial Solution: World Corporation",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1909, Bernard Shaw, Dramatic opinions and essays, with an apology",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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 ...",
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    {
      "word": "selfishness"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1909, Bernard Shaw, Dramatic opinions and essays, with an apology",
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          "type": "quotation"
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    }
  ],
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}

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