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The quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior
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externality
Word definitions for externality in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being external or externalized. 2 (context countable English) A thing that is external relative to something else. 3 (context economics countable English) An impact, positive or negative, on any party not ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; "the outwardness of the world" [syn: outwardness ] [ant: inwardness ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In economics , an externality is the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit. Economists often urge governments to adopt policies that "internalize" an externality, so that costs and benefits will affect mainly ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "state of being external," from external + -ity . From 1839 as "that which is external." From 1833 as "undue regard for externals."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Externality \Ex`ter*nal"i*ty\, n. State of being external; exteriority; (Metaph.) separation from the perceiving mind. Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality in the thing which presses or resists. --A. Smith.
Usage examples of externality.
Onthe other hand, social relations completely invest the relations of production, making impossible any externality between social production and economic production.
Miracles were done among the Jews and Israelites because they were altogether external men and had been brought into the land of Canaan merely to represent a church and its eternal verities by the externalities of worship--something a bad man as well as a good man can do.
If he attains them, his worship tends more and more to externalities until it slips away and at last he makes little account of God and denies Him.
It was at moments like this, when technicians were overwhelmed by externalities, that security was most likely to slip.
Like the savage, he may make his bed wherever his right arm can support him, and from his simple and athletic attitude of observation, the property-owner seems buried and smothered in ignoble externalities and trammels, "wading in straw and rubbish to his knees.
The phase change accelerates as more and more entities join in, leveraging network externalities to overtake the traditional ecosystem.
And now, so near the onrushing moment of terror, of violation, her body had shown her that, blind to all externalities, the secret rhythm of life continued its perpetual motion undisturbed.