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Externality   Listen
noun
Externality  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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Externality" Quotes from Famous Books



... between the method or the thoroughness with which he collected his facts in the one case or the other; and the story of the war of the mercenaries against the Carthaginians is evolved with the same alternation of picture and dramatic spectacle and the same hard merciless externality that distinguish the evolution ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert

... excused for deliberately dashing his foot against a stone because forsooth he has persuaded himself with Zeno, that there is no such thing as motion; or with Berkeley, that the externality of the world is a delusion; or will he be pardoned in his unbelief because he could not justify by philosophy the truth which conscience and nature are dinning into his ears: that there is a God the Rewarder of them that ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell



Words linked to "Externality" :   spatial relation, outwardness, worldliness



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