aliety
English edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin alietas, from Latin alius (“other”).
Noun edit
aliety (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The state of being different; otherness.
- 1700, John Sergeant, Transnatural Philosophy, or Metaphysicks:
- But in our case there are but Two single Attributes, viz, Self-Knowing and Self-Loving, and yet each of those single Attributes imports Distinction and Aliety, (if I may use that word) in it's own Particular Notion.
References edit
- “aliety”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.