outwardness, externality
(noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; “the outwardness of the world”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
externality (countable and uncountable, plural externalities)
(uncountable) The state of being external or externalized.
(countable) A thing that is external relative to something else.
(economics, countable) An impact, positive or negative, on any party not involved in a given economic transaction or act.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex`ter*nal"i*ty, n.
Definition: State of being external; exteriority; (Metaph.)
Definition: separation from the perceiving mind. Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality in the thing which presses or resists. A. Smith.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
