Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Excessive regard to outward acts or appearances, especially in religion.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of judging by outward appearance or acts.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The belief that only things that can be observed by senses are real.

Origin

c. 1840 external + -ism

c. 1840 external + -ism

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Forms

plural: externalisms
Singularexternalism
Pluralexternalisms

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
externalism — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto