Externality

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Externality \Ex`ter*nal"i*ty\, n.
     State of being external; exteriority; (Metaph.) separation
     from the perceiving mind.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality


           in the thing which presses or resists.   --A. Smith.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  externality
       n : the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or
           relating to the outside or exterior; "the outwardness of
           the world" [syn: {outwardness}] [ant: {inwardness}]