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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
outwardness is a noun meaning "concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit". It carries 3 recorded senses.
concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit
“what is the origin of the outwardness of our sensations of sound, smell, or taste”
“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
“the outwardness of the world”
a concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts)
“hearty showmanship and all-round outwardness”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for outwardness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.