otherish
adjEtymology From other + -ish. Cognate with Dutch anders (“different”).
1
Pertaining or belonging to another kind; different.
- This likens the insect to another otherish human―not impossibly cruel this time, but impossibly brilliant.2007, Charlotte Sleigh, Six legs better: a cultural history of myrmecology:
2
Concerned with or directed toward others; selfless.
- 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.1884, James Hinton, The law-breaker and the coming of the law: