If, as a kid, you didn’t get what you wanted on your birthday, you were probably told that external, or outward, things can’t bring happiness. (It’s a noble idea, but it’s still up for debate, at least in some circles.)
Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal;
Noun
outward features; "he enjoyed the solemn externals of religion"
Adjective
happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface; "the external auditory canal"; "external pressures"
Adjective S.
purely outward or superficial; "external composure"; "an external concern for reputation"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
Adjective S.
from or between other countries; "external commerce"; "international trade"; "developing nations need outside help"
Adjective S.
coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups"
a.
Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body;
being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the
external form or surface of a body.
a.
Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate
from the perceiving mind.
a.
Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as
distinguished from mental or moral.
a.
Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying;
superficial.
a.
Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations;
as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or
kingdom.
a.
Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
n.
Something external or without; outward part; that which
makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; --
usually in the plural.
External
Of all external things, . . . She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.2.
Her virtues graced with external gifts.4.
The external circumstances are greatly different.5.
External
Adam was then no less glorious in his externals
God in externals could not place content.
Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal;
Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; -- usually in the plural.
Usage Examples
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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Other Usage ExamplesChristmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
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