Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

external world

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.50 in modern English

Syllables: ex-ter-nal -world
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The world consisting of all the objects and events which are experienceable or whose existence is accepted by the human mind, but which exist independently of the mind.

Example Sentences

"Human beings are able to form ideas that correspond in some way with a real world, outside of themselves. . . . [T]o each necessary relation a:b in human consciousness, there corresponds a relation A:B in the external world."
"Is not a vast "background" of experience what we all really mean by an external world, or God, according to the mood we are in?"
"Skeptics . . . claim that our evidence can't support our beliefs about the external world."

Inflected Forms

external worlds (plural)

Phrases

problem of the external world phenomenal world real world

Frequently Paired Words

noumenon phenomenal world real world

Questions

What does external world mean?: The world consisting of all the objects and events which are experienceable or whose existence is accepted by the human mind, but which exist independently of the mind.

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