Outness

Quick meaning: Outness is a noun meaning The quality of being out, or outside.

Meaning

The quality of being out, or outside.

More Meanings

1. (philosophy) The collective of things that are distinct from the observer.
2. (philosophy) The property of being distinct.
3. The extent to which someone, particularly a gay person, is open about their sexuality.

Example Sentences

Distance means degree of outness of one thing from another; but it presupposes outness as a fact and a conception.

If I use my own name to publish pieces which use homosexual themes, this decision forces a certain amount of "outness" upon those who associate with me.

From what we have shewn it is a manifest Consequence, that the Ideas of Space, Outness, and things placed at a distance are not strictly speaking, the Object of Sight.

The forces which work in and upon organic life know nothing of outness and inness. They shine through the materials which they build up and mould, as light shines through the clearest glass.

Word Forms

• outnesses

Synonyms for outness

Depending on context, synonyms include otherness, externality, outwardness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outerness, outwardness, outsideness, out-thereness, externalness, outdoorness.

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