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otherkin
[ uhth-er-kin ]
adjective
- of or relating to the belief or feeling that one's soul or essence is partly or fully something other than human, such as believing one’s core identity to be a mythological creature, fictional character, or animal.
noun
, plural oth·er·kin.
- a member of a community of people who believe or feel that their soul or essence is partly or fully something other than human, such as a mythological creature, fictional character, or animal.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of otherkin1
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, in the sense “different kind of, other kinds of”; current sense dates from 1990–95; variant of original otherkind (coined in the magazine Elfkind Digest and modeled on elfinkind “race of elves”); other ( def ) + kin ( def )
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