exteriority

/ɪkˌstɪɹiˈɔɹɪti/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

"Man's knowledge of God is an attempt to perceive himself in the mirror of exteriority; man exteriorizes his own essence before he recognizes it in himself, and the opposition between God and man is a 'mystified' version of the opposition between the species and the individual."

From exterior + -ity. Compare French extériorité.

exteriorities (plural)

nonexteriority

majority authority minority priority superiority sorority seniority inferiority anteriority

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How do you pronounce exteriority?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɪkˌstɪɹiˈɔɹɪti/.

What does exteriority mean?

surface; externality; outside

Where does exteriority come from?

From exterior + -ity. Compare French extériorité.

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