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Meaning of altarity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Otherness exalted as if a religious concept.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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