exteriority

[ ik-steer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or- ]
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noun,plural ex·te·ri·or·i·ties.
  1. the state or fact of being exterior.

  2. something exterior.

Origin of exteriority

1
First recorded in 1605–15; exterior + -ity

Words Nearby exteriority

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How to use exteriority in a sentence

  • A second limitation is found inPg 238 the unvarying exteriority of his method of presenting human nature.

    Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred Downer
  • This feeling of exteriority of sound seems to require transmission through the membrana tympani.

  • exteriority does not interest Poictevin, who is nevertheless a landscape painter; intimate and charming.

    Egoists | James Huneker
  • Hawthorne freely confesses to this constant exteriority, and appears to have been perfectly conscious of it.

    Hawthorne | Henry James, Junr.