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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



... one time for ninety-nine that we are lost in admiration at the respective moral or intellectual attributes of the character? But in a picture Othello is always a Blackamoor; and the other only Plump Jack. Deeply corporealised, and enchained hopelessly in the grovelling fetters of externality, must be the mind, to which, in its better moments, the image of the high-souled, high-intelligenced Quixote—the errant Star of Knighthood, made more tender by eclipse—has never presented itself, divested from the unhallowed accompaniment of a ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb


Words linked to "Externality" :   position, worldliness, external


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