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exteriority

exteriority

1 9.9
Being on the outside of something, like a building or object
  • noun
  • /ɪkˌstɪəriˈɔːrɪti/
: exterioridad
  • The architect emphasized the importance of exteriority in her design, focusing on how buildings relate to their surroundings.
  • interiority and exteriority
  • pure exteriority
  • constitutes the exteriority

I wanted then to connect what I knew about physics into a theory that would connect the interiority and the exteriority.

Examples

  • Early in the novel, he worries about his exteriority and exclusion and watches the city close ranks against him.

    Academic text (2016)

  • The aim of this paper is to illustrate how subjectivity is constituted via exteriorities.

    Academic text (2010)

  • No delimitation of an exteriority, then, provides it with the condition necessary for autonomy.

    Academic text (2008)

  • From exteriority to interiority, material to spiritual, and flesh to spirit.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Language, while constituting the very content of absence, makes absence a pure exteriority.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Still, Hans can only get so close; he is constrained by the limits of technology and, necessarily, by visual exteriority.

    Academic text (2010)

  • In short, absence that cannot be recuperated or recovered informs the exteriority of representation.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Sociology, psychology, and physiology are thus deaf to exteriority.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Meaning and historical change are brought about by exteriority, circumstances, and not primarily by a self-conscious subject's intentionality or interiority.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Exteriority, including the exterior of the church building, evokes materiality, temporality, worldliness, and createdness.

    Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

exterior
vsexteriority
93 3.1

The outside part of something, like the walls of a house

means the general state of being outside rather than a physical surface
externality
vsexteriority
1 8.4

An outside part of something that you can see

focuses on the basic state of being outside rather than specific features
outness
vsexteriority
1 9.0

Being outside or separate from other things so it is easy to notice

is an alternative form with identical meaning
outwardness
vsexteriority
1 7.9

Being on or facing the outside of a place

emphasizes the simple state of being outside not direction
outsideness
vsexteriority
7.5

Being outside something rather than inside it

is the same meaning presented as a different form

Antonyms

interiority
  • Literature
1 9.1

Private thoughts and feelings that a person has

How Outside

exteriority
1 9.9
interiority
  • Literature
1 9.1

Surface Forms

exteriority singular
exteriorities plural

Morphology

exteriority = exterior (transparent) = exterior + ity

Standard nominalization of the adjective 'exterior' with '-ity' yielding 'the state or quality of being exterior', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Exteriority comes from the part ex- meaning 'out' and the root exterior, which means 'outside' and appears in words like exterior and external. So exteriority simply means being 'outside' or external to something.