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outness|ˈaʊtnɪs|
[f. out adv. or a. + -ness.]
1. The quality, fact, or condition of being out or external, esp. of being external to the percipient or to the mind; externality.
1709Berkeley Th. Vision §46 The ideas of space, outness, and things placed at a distance. 1710― Princ. Hum. Knowl. §43. 1804–6 Syd. Smith Mor. Philos. (1850) 5 When the mass of mankind hear..that what mankind consider as their arms and legs, are not arms and legs, but ideas accompanied with the notion of outness. 1821Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. X. 249 Outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity), rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. 1864C. M. Ingleby Introd. Metaph. i. §12 Any luminous impression on the retina at once excites the perception of outness. It is impossible to say to what point this outness is relative.
2. Utterance, outward expression.
1851Robertson Serm. Ser. ii. xi. (1864) 145 As if the heart could not bear its own burden, but must give it outness.
3. Occupation with or interest in what is without.
1861J. Brown Horæ Subs. Ser. ii. Educ. through Senses 486 Cultivate observation, energy, handicraft, ingenuity, outness in boys so as to give them a pursuit as well as a study. |