Definitions for externalism

externalism ex·ter·nal·ism

Spelling: [ik-stur-nl-iz-uh m]
IPA: /ɪkˈstɜr nlˌɪz əm/

Externalism is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 1507 anagrams from letters in externalism (aeeilmnrstx).

Definitions for externalism

noun

  1. attention to externals, especially excessive attention to externals, as in religion.

Origin of externalism

First recorded in 1855-60; external + -ism

Examples for externalism

"O foolish Galatians," he seems still to be saying, What is it that charms you so much in all this ritual and externalism?

To a Christian all this has its defects—formalism, externalism, needless narrowness.

The fallacy of the Socialist program is not in its radicalism, but in its externalism.

The externalism in which most of our lives are spent makes the effort to look within a painful contradiction of habit.

They tore off the accumulated husks of externalism, but kept intact the real kernel of religion.

A religion violently imposed from without as a state-religion naturally tends to hypocrisy and externalism.

It is curious how the superstition of externalism has affected many, even noble minds.

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