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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

In him this French capability for rendering the outward is wrought to the highest point; and it is outwardness as pure from any touch of inspiration or sentiment as I ever remember to have seen.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

This outwardness tended to create certain vices of character.

From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. C. Alexander