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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior;
- Example: "the outwardness of the world"
[syn: outwardness, externality]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Externality \Ex`ter*nal"i*ty\, n. State of being external; exteriority; (Metaph.) separation from the perceiving mind. [1913 Webster] Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality in the thing which presses or resists. --A. Smith. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

externality n 1: the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; "the outwardness of the world" [syn: outwardness, externality] [ant: inwardness]