externalism
Americannoun
noun
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exaggerated emphasis on outward form, esp in religious worship
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a philosophical doctrine holding that only objects that can be perceived by the senses are real; phenomenalism
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The second reason may well be that there are different coping mechanisms among minorities that are more externalism than internalizing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2013
Their place in Israel was to be the champions of righteousness, and—I was going to say—the knights of God, as against law and ceremonial and externalism.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
He might have made their life a constant summer-time—that very life that had been by his own short-sighted externalism, confirmed into freezing, stormy, chilling winter.
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph
They tore off the accumulated husks of externalism, but kept intact the real kernel of religion.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
This philosophy of externalism and of the impotence of the human mind threw the poet, believer and devotee of the Kabbalah, into a most dangerous mysticism.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz
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