- externality (sense )
- too great a regard for externals
externalism
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externalism
noun
Excessive concern with outer circumstances or appearances.
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- ex·ter′nal·ist
noun
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Noun
(plural externalisms)
- Excessive regard to outward acts or appearances, especially in religion. The denial of internalism.
- The act of judging by outward appearance or acts.
- The belief that only things that can be observed by senses are real.
Origin
c. 1840 external + -ism
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