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ˈoutwardness
[f. outward a. + -ness.]
1. The quality or condition of being outward; externality, outward existence; objectivity.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Extérieureté, outwardnesse. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 829 Magnitude or Extension as such is meer outside or outwardness, it hath nothing within. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 19 These..give an outwardness and sensation of reality to the shapings of the dream. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. viii. vi. 68 Whatsoever I could bring into outwardness that I wrote down.
2. Occupation with, concernment or belief in outward things; esp. as opposed to that which is introspective or arises from within.
c1835J. Sterling in Courtney Mill (1889) 73 He has been gradually delivered from this outwardness..individual reform must be the groundwork of social progress. 1840Carlyle Heroes iii. (1872) 87 He dwells in vague outwardness, fallacy and trivial hearsay. 1840Blackw. Mag. XLVIII. 270 The outwardness, or materiality of Vecelli. 1891Wesley. Meth. Mag. Jan. 68 Owing..to his native volatility and outwardness, he did not come to the crisis of his spiritual history until 5 years after leaving school. |