externality

1. 1.

   the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior

   “the outwardness of the world”

   Synonymsoutwardness

   Broaderposition

   Narrowerworldliness

Other forms of externality

plural

externalities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about externality

What does externality mean?

externality means "the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior".

How many syllables are in externality?

externality has 5 syllables: ex-ter-na-li-ty. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for externality?

Close synonyms include outwardness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is externality a common word?

externality is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.