Outness

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

  Outness \Out"ness\, n.
     1. The state of being out or beyond; separateness.
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     2. (Metaph.) The state or quality of being distinguishable
        from the perceiving mind, by being in space, and


        possessing material quality; externality; objectivity.
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              The outness of the objects of sense.  --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
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