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outwardness

  • a word derived from outward.
    outward
    adjective
    proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point.

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That sense of collegial openness and outwardness pervades the entire production, all the more remarkable when you consider the talent quotient and award-studded résumés of the supporting cast.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2016

There, despite the apparent outwardness of his vehemence, Picasso was almost crazily hermetic.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had the general outwardness of a vast and lumpy child.

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Booth Tarkington

Now, in the sense of the outwardness of its authority, we repudiate even this.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore

Your nature runs to social communions, to visible movements, to outwardness, in short, more than to the central depths within.

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey