otherwhen

English

Etymology

other +‎ when

Noun

otherwhen (plural otherwhens)

1. (rare) Other time (sometime else).
   • 1972, Harry Harrison, Brian Wilson Aldiss, The Astounding-analog Reader:

     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  ...

   • 1974, Brian Wilson Aldiss, The eighty-minute hour: a space opera:

     The ravaging weapons of war had revealed them, had so torn the fabric of the universe that now strange paths to otherwheres and otherwhens lay open to those who were knowledgeable or courageous enough to tread those paths ...

   • 2000, Allan Pred, Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 186:

     Otherwheres and Otherwhens: Excerpts from a Gazetteer of Collective Remembering and Forgetting

   • 2016, Michael Crowe, Tales of the Nephilim, iUniverse, →ISBN:

     Two had been found drifting around in space in one of the otherwhens, and once their existence had become known several specimens had been collected, all of the same two individuals of course. When you are connected to otherwhens, ...

Adverb

otherwhen (not comparable)

1. (rare) Elsewhen, sometime or somewhen else, another time.
   • 2008, Steven M. Rosen, The Self-evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to Nature's Unity-in-diversity, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 57:

     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.