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noun

outwardness n.

Concern with outward things or material objects (esp the body and its appearance) as opposed to the mind or the spirit or ideal concepts; as, hearty showmanship and all-around outwardness.

The quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; as, the outwardness of the world.

Synonyms: externality.

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Etymology of 'Outwardness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Outwardness" Quotes from Famous Books

... more fearful in its consequences than even idolatry. Judah was no exception to the ordinary fate of nations; the everlasting sequence—pertaining to institutions as well as nations, to religious as well as merely political communities—was here seen,—"Inwardness, outwardness, worldliness, and rottenness." ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume II • John Lord

... knowledge, something outward and for the sake of others merely; while being a knowing subject constitutes the special essential nature of intelligent beings. To explain. Just as the body, through its objectiveness, outwardness, and similar causes, is distinguished from what possesses the opposite attributes of subjectiveness, inwardness, and so on; for the same reason the ahamkra also—which is of the same substantial nature as the body—is similarly distinguished. Hence the ahamkra is no ...

— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut

... I sit and dream, Amazed in outwardness; The powers of things that only seem The things ...

— The Poetical Works of George MacDonald in Two Volumes, Volume I • George MacDonald