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adj. Relating to, existing on, or connected with the outside or an outer part; exterior.

adj. Suitable for application to the outside: external paints.

adj. Existing independently of the mind.

adj. Acting or coming from the outside: external pressures.

adj. Of or relating chiefly to outward appearance; superficial: "An internal sense of righteousness dwindles into an external concern for reputation” ( A.R. Gurney, Jr.)

adj. Of or relating to foreign affairs or foreign countries: the country's minister of external affairs.

n. An exterior part or surface.

n. Outer circumstances.

n. Outward appearances: was charming as far as the externals went.

adj. outside of something

adj. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal.

adj. Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind.

adj. Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral.

adj. Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.

adj. Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations

adj. Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.

n. Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; -- usually in the plural.

Situated on or pertaining to the outside; located in a part of space not occupied by or within the thing referred to.

Outer or outermost; specifically, in zoology, on the side furthest away from the body, from the median line, or from the center of a radially symmetrical form: as, the external side of an insect's leg; the external edge of the carapace; external border, etc.

Being outside in any figurative sense; coming from or pertaining to the outside; not internal: as, external evidence; specifically, in metaphysics, forming part of or pertaining to the world of things or phenomena in space, considered as outside of the perceiving mind.

Belonging to a thing in its relations with other things; extrinsic: as, external constraint.

Outward; exterior; visible from the outside; hence, capable of being perceived; apparent.

Pertaining to the surface merely; superficial: as, external culture.

Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations: as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.

n. An outward part; something pertaining to the exterior.

n. An outward rite or ceremony; a visible form or symbol: as, the externals of religion.

adj. happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface

n. outward features

adj. from or between other countries

adj. purely outward or superficial

adj. coming from the outside

"As he puts it in discussing the Sextus 'attitude to the external world, “His own deep skepticism leaves him in a state of epochê, not only as to whether there are any such things as ˜external objects', but even as to whether these terms of the Dogmatists have any intelligible meaning at all.”"

outer    outside    foreign    outward    extrinsic   

internal   

feature    characteristic   

external criterion of truth    external world    external perception    external criticism    external angle    external capsule    external absorption    external quantity    external form of reasoning    external adjunct   

externalism    externalize    externalization    externality    externalist   

outward    exterior    visible    accidental    accompanying    superficial    foreign    lateral   

colonel    diurnal    eternal    fraternal    infernal    internal    journal    kernel    maternal    nocturnal   

internal    physical    visual    mechanical