Alternative
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Alternative means:
- Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities
- Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle, alternative rock).
- Other
Alternative can refer to:
- Alternative culture, a variety of subcultures on the fringes of mainstream culture
- Alternative lifestyle, a lifestyle that it is not within the cultural norm
- Alternative media, media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication
- Alternative society, different models for society and social change
- Alternative sexuality, sexual lifestyles that fall outside the sexual norm
Etymology
From Middle French alternatif, from Medieval Latin alternativus, from the participle stem of Latin alternāre (“to do by turns”). Compare alternate.
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