outness
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- noun
- Even the naive idealist—say, Berkeley—acknowledged "the external," or "outness," of sense perceptions, as this was an essential premise in his argument for the existence of God.
Examples
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Architects often emphasize the outness of natural light in their designs to create open spaces.
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The outness of the building's design made it stand out in the urban landscape.
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The outness of his thoughts reflected a desire to embrace the world beyond his own experiences.
Synonyms
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An outside part of something that you can see
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Being on the outside of something, like a building or object
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Being on or facing the outside of a place
Being outside something rather than inside it
Antonyms
How External
Surface Forms
Morphology
outness = (transparent) = out + ness
The noun is a regular formation meaning the state or quality of being out. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Outness comes from the simple word out meaning 'outside' and the ending -ness meaning 'a state' or 'quality'. Think of outdoor or outside—outness is the state of being outside something.