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outside world

Noun

Meaning

(idiomatic) The rest of the world outside of some closed, restricted, or remote environment.

(philosophy) The world external to the human mind.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Hermann Hesse

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. Erich Fromm

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little. John Maynard Keynes

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world. Bette Davis

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. Fay Weldon

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. Hilaire Belloc

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