outside world
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Noun
outside world (plural outside worlds)
- (idiomatic) The rest of the world outside of some closed, restricted, or remote environment.
- 1992, Nixon, Richard, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, LCCN 91-37743, OCLC 440652941, pages 179-180:
- The people of Tibet represent a separate case. Conquered by the Chinese in 1950, occupied brutally by troops who killed thousands, desecrated local cultural and religious sites, and denied reasonable demands for autonomy, Tibetans have elicited much sympathy but little support from the outside world.
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- (philosophy) The world external to the human mind.
Synonyms
- (philosophy: world external to the mind): external world
Translations
rest of the world outside of some closed environment
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