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exteriority|ɛkˌstɪərɪˈɒrɪtɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ity. Cf. F. extériorité.]
1. The state or fact of being outward or outside, or of having an external existence; outwardness.
1611Cotgr., Exterieureté, exterioritie, outwardness. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. xvi. 56 The exteriority and palpability of the exercise of their affections. 1803Edin. Rev. I. 261 Interiority and exteriority, by which is meant the distinction of the attributes of an object as originally existing in itself or as acquired from without. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxviii. (1859) II. 174 The sense of touch by itself..is not even cognizant of local exteriority [örtliches auseinanderseyn]. 1864Webster, Exteriority, surface, superficies.
2. In religious sense occas.: Devotion to the external instead of to the inward and spiritual.
a1875Bp. Forbes, (O.) And this leads on to a third point which hinders progress, and that is what for want of a better word may be termed exteriority. 1885Bissell Pentateuch 311 These men of God..in the midst of a tendency to pure exteriority.
3. ‘The psychical act by which sensations are referred to the external world, as when an impression on the retina is referred to an object outside and not to the place of sensation’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). |