Hypertext Webster Gateway: "externality"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Externality \Ex`ter*nal"i*ty\, 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. --A. Smith.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
externality
n : the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or
relating to the outside or exterior: "the outwardness of
the world" [syn: {outwardness}] [ant: {inwardness}]
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