otherwhen

Etymology

From other + when.

otherwhen means elsewhen, sometime or somewhen else, another time. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 92 out of 100.

Why “otherwhen” is a great word

OTHERWHEN — [Adverb / Noun] At or of another time; elsewhen. From the English 'other' (different, additional) + 'when' (at what time). Unlike 'formerly,' which anchors us firmly in the past, or the purely adverbial 'elsewhen,' 'otherwhen' is temporally unmoored and can itself become the place it describes—a noun for another time. It is the specific ache for a summer afternoon experienced only in memory, the sudden chill in a sunlit room that feels like a ghost from a future winter, or the uncanny architecture of a dream that belongs to no calendar you own. It is the quiet proof that the present is merely one room in an infinite mansion of times.

adv

Elsewhen, sometime or somewhen else, another time.“In the contrasting phenomenological approach — because elsewhere presences here and otherwhen presences now — elsewhere and otherwhen also are present to one another, each in its own way.”

noun

Other time (sometime else).“It was the beginning of a trail leading from the here-and-now into the otherwhere, otherwhen which Simak so loved. His otherwhere, otherwhen would never find more poetic expression than in this series about the Websters, unless perhaps in ...”