EXTERNALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does externality mean? 

• EXTERNALITY (noun)
  The noun EXTERNALITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior

  Familiarity information: EXTERNALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTERNALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

externality; outwardness

Context example:

the outwardness of the world

Hypernyms ("externality" is a kind of...):

position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "externality"):

worldliness (concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs)

Derivation:

external (happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface)

external (coming from the outside)