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单词 exteriority
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exteriorityn.

/ɛkˌstɪərɪˈɒrɪti/
Etymology: formed as exterior adj. + -ity suffix. Compare French extériorité.
1. The state or fact of being outward or outside, or of having an external existence; outwardness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [noun]
exteriority1611
externity1713
externality1877
outsidedness1897
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Exterieureté, exterioritie, outwardness.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xvi. 56 The exteriority and palpability of the exercise of their affections.
1803 Edinb. Rev. 1 261 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.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxviii. 174 The sense of touch, by itself..is not even cognizant of local exteriority, [Ger. œrtliches Auseinanderseyn].
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Exteriority, surface, superficies.
2. In religious sense occasionally: Devotion to the external instead of to the inward and spiritual.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [noun] > conformity to > slavish
formalizinga1656
externalness1667
rituality1679
externality1833
ritualism1838
rubricism1840
ecclesiolatry1847
ceremonialism1854
externalism1856
formalism1856
exterioritya1875
liturgism1926
spikery1965
a1875 Bp. 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.
1885 Bissell 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’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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