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English Dictionary: externality by the DICT Development Group
2 results for externality
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
externality
n
  1. the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; "the outwardness of the world"
    Synonym(s): outwardness, externality
    Antonym(s): inwardness
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.
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