Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Outwardness; externality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Exteriorization; externalization; the mental reference of sense-processes to objects in the external world.
- noun The character or fact of being exterior; superficiality; externality.
- noun Something exterior or external; an outward circumstance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Surface; superficies; externality.
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- noun
surface ;externality
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even if he was "phoning it in" or holding himself back while in rehearsal mode, the exteriority of the verisimilitude in his performance far surpasses most people, even on their best day.
Ashley Wren Collins: Using Michael Jackson's Legacy to Open Can of Whoop Ass on Youth Work Ethic 2010
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Considering pure exteriority entails misplacing these proper relations between inside the metaphor and outside, as well as confusing what is proper within the social system and what belongs outside it.
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Even if he was "phoning it in" or holding himself back while in rehearsal mode, the exteriority of the verisimilitude in his performance far surpasses most people, even on their best day.
Ashley Wren Collins: Using Michael Jackson's Legacy to Open Can of Whoop Ass on Youth Work Ethic 2010
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For in identifying difference with negativity, Parmenides insures that the principle by which being is form-atted requires an exteriority, another agency, another principle through which difference is introduced.
Perception of an absence where one misses something Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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For in identifying difference with negativity, Parmenides insures that the principle by which being is form-atted requires an exteriority, another agency, another principle through which difference is introduced.
Archive 2009-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The exteriority of fantasy means that there will always be those who see it as encompassing SF, containing it.
Archive 2007-12-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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The exteriority of fantasy means that there will always be those who see it as encompassing SF, containing it.
Once More Into The Fray Hal Duncan 2007
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I was very much influenced by the Veil of St Veronica by Francisco Zurbarán and when the face (of Jesus) touched the veil it left its imprint not painted on top but in the veil, so the veil itself is the reality and it becomes a threshold between the interiority and the exteriority.
Archbishop Visits Redeveloped St Martin in the Fields Church 2008
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I was very much influenced by the Veil of St Veronica by Francisco Zurbarán and when the face (of Jesus) touched the veil it left its imprint not painted on top but in the veil, so the veil itself is the reality and it becomes a threshold between the interiority and the exteriority.
Archbishop Visits Redeveloped St Martin in the Fields Church 2008
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We have called it body/mind, matter/idea, exteriority/interiority…in reality, it is a matter of the distance between the same and the same, and thus sometimes rejection of one by the other, sometimes a burst élan, escstatic from one towards the other…Strangeness is none other than this strangenes to ourselves, in ourselves.
Jean-Luc Nancy, the real outside is inside Lemon Hound 2008
trailingedge commented on the word exteriority
externality
October 13, 2008