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The quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior
Answer for the clue "The quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior ", 11 letters:
outwardness
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality of being outward. 2 (context countable English) The result or product of being outward.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. concern with outward things or material objects (especially the body and its appearance) as opposed to the mind and spirit; "hearty showmanship and all-around outwardness" [ant: inwardness ] the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
outwardness \outwardness\ n. concern with outward things or material objects (esp the body and its appearance) as opposed to the mind or the spirit or ideal concepts; as, hearty showmanship and all-around outwardness. the quality or state of being outside ...
Usage examples of outwardness.
Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end.
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
For it guaranteed that there would always be a history, an outwardness in man so that he could not stagnate forever on his one little planet.
This is the outwardness, the common frame within which sixty-five books by Verne would be made.
Yet those who traveled inside it had turned inward, into themselves, and all the vast outwardness of the cosmos was to them only a cloak for their dream-life.
The hint that outwardness was faltering fitted ill with the lightness he intended.
Two inner cubicles held a bed, a sanitor, a nutrition unit, and whatever else was barebones necessary, but here were only screens, panels, receptors, and other unobtrusive outwardnesses of the great, thinking engine.