单词 | outness |
释义 | outnessn. 1. The quality, fact, or condition of being out; the quality or fact of being external, esp. as apprehended by the mind or senses; externality; an example or instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [noun] outwardness1580 externality1673 outness1694 extraneity1849 extrinsicality1852 extraneousness1881 extrinsicism1934 1694 T. Taylor tr. N. Malebranche Treat. Search after Truth ii. 122 Is it not evident that there are outnesses [Fr. des dehors], and remotenesses, and intelligible spaces in the intelligible world, which is the Immediate Object of our Mind? 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §46. 51 The Ideas of Space, Outness, and things placed at a Distance. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. iv. 334 Our sight informs us not of distance or outness (so to speak) immediately and without a certain reasoning and experience. 1821 S. T. Coleridge in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 249 Outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity), rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. 1864 C. 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. 1902 Philos. Rev. 11 41 Berkeley laid great stress on the theory of color and vision, and was at pains to explain the perception of outness or apparent distance of objects seen. 1974 Times 21 Feb. 10/5 Coleridge now talks learnedly about consciousness and ‘outness’. 2. Utterance, outward expression. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] speechc725 spellc888 tonguec897 spellingc1000 wordOE mathelingOE redec1275 sermonc1275 leeda1300 gale13.. speakc1300 speaking1303 ledenc1320 talea1325 parliamentc1325 winda1330 sermoningc1330 saying1340 melinga1375 talkingc1386 wordc1390 prolationa1393 carpinga1400 eloquencec1400 utteringc1400 language?c1450 reporturec1475 parleyc1490 locutionc1500 talk1539 discourse1545 report1548 tonguec1550 deliverance1553 oration1555 delivery1577 parling1582 parle1584 conveying1586 passage1598 perlocution1599 wording1604 bursta1616 ventilation1615 loquency1623 voicinga1626 verbocination1653 loquence1677 pronunciation1686 loquel1694 jawinga1731 talkee-talkee?1740 vocification1743 talkation1781 voicing1822 utterancy1827 voicing1831 the spoken word1832 outness1851 verbalization1851 voice1855 outgiving1865 stringing1886 praxis1950 1851 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1864) 2nd Ser. xi. 145 As if the heart could not bear its own burden, but must give it outness. 1883 G. Barlow Actor's Reminiscences 59 Just to give themselves Something outside themselves to dwell upon; Just to give outness to their inward thought. 1979 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 170 Language does not reproduce things; it gives ‘outness to thoughts’. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > unselfishness > [noun] > interest in what is outside self outness1861 1861 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ 2nd Ser. II. 486 Cultivate observation, energy, handicraft, ingenuity, outness in boys, so as to give them a pursuit as well as a study. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1694 |
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