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  • noun The quality of being outer.

Etymologies

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From outer +‎ -ness.

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Examples

  • It must be something in space and time, and hence conform to the inner/outerness or subjective/objective matrix of space, as well as the trajective and prejective-ness of time.

    Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Cristaudo, Wayne 2008

  • I know I'm not ugly, I mean I have had PLENTY of Girlfriends (is that a bad thing?) but I can't see what they saw in my outerness.

    lethalpickle Diary Entry lethalpickle 2001

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