Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
sa relation à l’altérité
English translation:
its attitude to Otherness
French term
United Kingdom
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Native in: English (Variants: UK, South African, British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean) 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
sa relation à l’altérité
"... il semble pétri dès ses débuts par ses obsessions constituantes : un sentiment d’abandon ancestral; un rapport physique au territoire; une quête identitaire inextinguible; un lien ambigu à la foi; et sa relation à l’altérité sous toutes ses formes."
I am looking for good suggestions. I have come up with "its relationship to an otherness in all its forms", but I still feel this is a bit vague and not accurate enough, and I wonder if there is something more appropriate here than simply using "relationship".
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ormiston
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| 3 +2 | its embrace of otherness in all foems |
Francois Boye
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| 4 -1 | its connection to orginality/uniqueness |
Sarojini Seeneevassen
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Proposed translations
its attitude to Otherness
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An economic geek with social skills
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, French to English, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
its embrace of otherness in all foems
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Note added at 3 hrs (2019-04-06 15:21:19 GMT)
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Erratum: FORMS instead of 'foems'"
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philgoddard
: You could say "the embrace", to avoid the repetition and ambiguity of "its".
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Thanks!
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Eliza Hall
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thanks!
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Mauritius
Native, my main target language
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English, Creoles & Pidgins (French-based Other) to English
its connection to orginality/uniqueness
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Jennifer White
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Daryo
: 'altérité' mean 'otherness', and I really can see by which kind of logical acrobatics you could turn it into meaning "uniqueness".
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My perspective: 'otherness' means having specific charasteristics which differentiates from the rest - which sounds very much like 'uniqueness' to me in this context. Of course this is just my perspective.
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Eliza Hall
: I'm with Daryo here. A writer chooses "altérité" (and not "originalité," etc.) because their point is not the originality of the thing, but the otherness of the thing.
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writeaway
: a good thesaurus is needed instead of a straight-out-of-the-dictionary translation. don't particularly agree with connection however
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