externality
pronunciation
How to pronounce externality in British English:
UK [ˌekstɜ:'nælətɪ]
How to pronounce externality in American English:
US [ˌekstɜr'nælətɪ]
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- Noun:
- the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior
Word Origin
- externality (n.)
- 1670s, "state of being external," from external + -ity. From 1839 as "that which is external." From 1833 as "undue regard for externals."
Example
- 1. What else has that kind of externality like a meeting place ?
- 2. As soul , the notion is realised in a body of whose externality the soul is the immediate self relating universality .
- 3. The damage caused by second-hand smoke in pubs is not an externality .
- 4. Possibility and contingency are the two factors of actuality inward and outward , put as mere forms which constitute the externality of the actual .
- 5. The externality theory is a basic theory of explaining economy activities and forest ecological environment problems .