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Outwardness

noun

Concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit. "An abstract conception with feelings of reality and spatial outwardness attached to it"

The quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior. Synonym: externality.

A concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts).

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"Outwardness" Quotes from Famous Books

... magic language, and had the other, finer bearing, both of which she could perceive, but could never attain to. The vicar moved in worlds beyond where her own menfolk existed. Did she not know her own menfolk: fresh, slow, full-built men, masterful enough, but easy, native to the earth, lacking outwardness and range of motion. Whereas the vicar, dark and dry and small beside her husband, had yet a quickness and a range of being that made Brangwen, in his large geniality, seem dull and local. She knew her husband. But in the vicar's nature ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Words linked to "Outwardness" : spatial relation, cognitive state, position, outward, extroversion, worldliness, extraversion, state of mind, externality, inwardness