outlookingadj.n.
/ˈaʊtlʊkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌlʊkɪŋ/ A. adj.
That looks out; extroverted.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > looking out
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1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. ciii. 204 An out-looking eye.
1821 J. Galt Ann. of Parish xxix. 252 There was an erect and out-looking spirit abroad that was not to be satisfied with the taciturn regularity of ancient affairs.
1855 F. Douglass My Bondage & my Freedom (1984) xx. 304 The prospect..did look about as dark as any that ever cast its gloom over the vision of the anxious, out-looking human spirit.
1928 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 18 33 The terms ‘inface’, ‘inner lowland’, and ‘outlooking slope’..are founded upon the assumption that cuestas occur nowhere except on coastal plains.
1988 E. J. Scovell Coll. Poems IV. 99 It is their grouping, pressed and herded, That prints the trees with motion held, with undivided Outlooking animal awareness.
B. n.
The action of looking out. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > looking out
prospective1601
prospect1691
outlooking1846
1846 E. A. Poe in Godey's Lady's Bk. Aug. 75/1 Their shrewd out-looking for self-interest.
1850 H. Bushnell God in Christ i. 22 The outlooking of His intelligence.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xx. 460 The train stopped: the slow aisle, still interrupted with outlooking, then the descent among faces grave, decorous and judicial.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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