单词 | outerness |
释义 | outernessn.ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [noun] > the outside or exterior out-halfOE outwardc1475 outside1505 utter-side1577 outerness1674 exterior1695 out1717 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 86 Unevennesses..in its outerness or surface. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > objectivity > [noun] objectivenessa1676 extra-existence1713 externalitya1790 objectivity1803 outerness1863 personal distance1902 1863 Dublin Lect. Eng. Lit. 10 An infusion of French character, which gave to the English mind a certain amount of French quickness and outerness, and made it more bright and objective. 3. Chiefly Philosophy. The quality or fact of being outer or external; externality. ΚΠ 1875 W. Jackson Philos. Nat. Theol. 189 Does any one refuse to act on the supposition of otherness, and outerness, or ignore his world of fellow-men and hard objectivities which press upon him from every side? 1894 Mind 3 74 An externalisation which, by virtue of this very reflexion, acquires a certain independence in its outerness. 1931 Philos. Rev. 40 513 Each perceiver's sensa exist in a private realm, really out there, but not in the same outerness that physical things inhabit. 1998 R. Langton Kantian Humility ii. 36 The idea can sometimes carry an implication of outerness and sometimes an implication of otherness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1674 |
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