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]