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externality

Pronunciation:  `ekstur'nalitee

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 Definition: [n]  the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; "the outwardness of the world"
 
 Synonyms: outwardness
 
 Antonyms: inwardness
 
 See Also: position, spatial relation

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ex`ter*nal"i*ty\, n.
State of being external; exteriority; (Metaph.) separation
from the perceiving mind.

      Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality
      in the thing which presses or resists.   --A. Smith.

 

 

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