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outwardness
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈaʊt.wəd.nəs/ us /ˈaʊt.wɚd.nəs/
the state of being concerned with how people, situations, or things look or seem to be, rather than how they are inside:
She is less worried about the outwardness of her image than she was in the early part of her career.
The outwardness of the manager's frustration with his team is a new thing; up until now, the trouble within the team has been kept mostly private.
the quality or state of going or pointing away from a particular place or towards the outside:
Our perception of distance seems to be as intuitive as our perception of spatial outwardness.
Outer space is just a colourless, weightless sea of endless outwardness.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Seeming and purporting to be
apparent
appear
appearance
as if/thoughidiom
by the look(s) of thingsidiom
come across
come off
formal
outward
outwardly
parallax
pass
pass for sb/sth
persona
semblance
superficial
superficiality
superficially
supposably
surface
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