Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; 
- Example: "the outwardness of the world"[syn: outwardness, externality]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Externality \Ex`ter*nal"i*ty\, n.
   State of being external; exteriority; (Metaph.) separation
   from the perceiving mind.
   [1913 Webster]
         Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality
         in the thing which presses or resists.   --A. Smith.
   [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
externality
    n 1: the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or
         relating to the outside or exterior; "the outwardness of
         the world" [syn: outwardness, externality] [ant:
         inwardness]