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单词 externality
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externalityn.

/ɛkstəˈnalɪti/
Etymology: formed as external adj. + -ity suffix.
The quality of being external.
1.
a. The quality of displaying itself in external forms.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [noun]
outwardness1580
externality1673
outness1694
extraneity1849
extrinsicality1852
extraneousness1881
extrinsicism1934
1673 H. More App. Antidote Idolatry 23 Worship, in the natural externality thereof.
1838 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (ed. 2) 1st Ser. 95 [In France] the externality of the classical spirit has worn away into mere superficiality.
b. The quality of being ‘all on the outside’; superficiality, hollowness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > superficiality or hollowness
superficiality1618
superficialness1624
outsideness1647
externality1684
floatiness1839
1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 243 If that Externality or Superficiality were aimed at.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits vi. 115 There is a prose in certain Englishmen..a knell in the..externality of their voice.
c. The condition or fact of being outside another object, or of being an outsider.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [noun]
exteriority1611
externity1713
externality1877
outsidedness1897
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals viii. 473 In relation to the body of the animal, all ligaments are external, and their internality or externality is in respect of the hinge line..along which the edges of the valves meet.
1881 Echo 1 July 1/6 The pleas of ignorance or of externality..cannot possibly be urged against one who has been the very foremost and most trusted champion of the system.
d. The quality of operating or striving to operate from without.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [noun] > operating from outside
externality1857
1857 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 358 Its [sc. the New Lutheran Orthodoxy's] whole principle, indeed, is that of the externality of the Christian Institute.
2. metaphorical. The quality or fact of being external to a perceiving subject; the fact of belonging to the external world, or having an existence in space.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > objectivity > [noun]
objectivenessa1676
extra-existence1713
externalitya1790
objectivity1803
outerness1863
personal distance1902
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > being or entity > that exists in time and space and can be perceived > existence in space
externalitya1790
a1790 A. Smith Ess. Philos. Subjects (1795) 198 Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality in the thing which presses or resists.
1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) ii. vii. §3 While looking at a solid object they cannot help having the conception, and..the momentary belief of its externality.
1871 A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley iii. 62 The scientific world was preparing for that reconstruction of its conception of what sensible things and externality mean.
3. (a) An external object; an outward feature or characteristic. (b) collective. Outward things in general; an outward environment or observance.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [noun] > the outside or exterior > outer or exterior part(s) > outward parts, appearance, or trappings
exterior1591
extern1609
external1641
externality1839
1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian xviii. §3. 346 A huge bulk of trifling ceremonial and idle externality.
a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1876) 4th Ser. xxvi. 288 The externalities of it may seem to be joy and brightness, but in the deep beneath there is a stern aspect.
1867 J. H. Stirling in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 385 So uneasy an externality, of which he is himself the powerless and apprehensive centre.
1871 D. M. Mulock Fair France 13 All these are sensuous externalities.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. i. §10 11 Force being that externality of which we have the most direct..cognizance.
4. Absorption in externals.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [noun] > occupation with the external or mere externality
materiality1605
externality1833
outwardness?c1835
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [noun] > conformity to > slavish
formalizinga1656
externalness1667
rituality1679
externality1833
ritualism1838
rubricism1840
ecclesiolatry1847
ceremonialism1854
externalism1856
formalism1856
exterioritya1875
liturgism1926
spikery1965
1833 C. Lamb in Athenæum 2 Feb. 73/2 Deeply corporealized, and inchained hopelessly in the grovelling fetters of externality, must be the mind, to which [etc.].
1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 185 What proof of infidelity, like..the externality of churches that once sucked the roots of right and wrong?

Draft additions 1993

Economics. A side-effect or consequence (of an industrial or commercial activity) which affects other parties without this being reflected in the cost of the goods or services involved; a social cost or benefit. Cf. spillover n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > economic forces or effects
overheating1609
consumption1662
supply1744
production1767
demand1776
effective demand1819
employment rate1833
equilibrium1871
opportunity cost1894
bankers' ramp1931
multiplier1936
multiplier effect1937
market forces1942
cost push1952
externality1957
fiscal drag1964
demand-side1975
1957 Amer. Econ. Rev. 47 42 The stock example of such a ‘technological external economy’ (or diseconomy) is the beekeeper whose honey output will increase..if the neighboring apple producer expands his output... [note] The other type of externality treated in the neoclassical literature..consists in sensitivity of input prices to industry output.
1962 Economica 29 17 The purpose of this paper is to bring into question..the implication that externalities are either reduced or eliminated by the shift of an activity from market to political organisation.
1973 Nature 20 Apr. 488/1 The most economical way of controlling both pollution and congestion in cities must depend on what the economists call an internalization of the externalities—making the motorist bear not merely the costs of operating his vehicle but the costs of what he does to other people.
1989 D. A. Hay Economics Today iv. 157 Provisions to deal with externalities such as pollution are enacted.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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