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exteriority

[ ik-steer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or- ]

noun

, plural ex·te·ri·or·i·ties.
  1. the state or fact of being exterior.
  2. something exterior.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of exteriority1

First recorded in 1605–15; exterior + -ity

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Example Sentences

A second limitation is found inPg 238 the unvarying exteriority of his method of presenting human nature.

This feeling of exteriority of sound seems to require transmission through the membrana tympani.

Exteriority does not interest Poictevin, who is nevertheless a landscape painter; intimate and charming.

Hawthorne freely confesses to this constant exteriority, and appears to have been perfectly conscious of it.

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