I'm looking for a word that refers to the state of being external or internal as a noun. Something like "ternality" or "ternalness" if those were words.
Example:
"The 'ternality' of the door was external."
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I'm looking for a word that refers to the state of being external or internal as a noun. Something like "ternality" or "ternalness" if those were words.
Example:
"The 'ternality' of the door was external."
Best Answer
If something is internal, it's obviously bounded by the limits of whatever it's contained within (a house, your body, etc.). If it's external it must be outside those limits (it's not bounded). So...
For an obviously "boolean" attribute like this, it's also perfectly natural to simply use a word identifying one of the two possible states. Just as we can refer to the truth of a statement (an "attribute" whose value can be either true or false), so we could refer to the...
...where the possible values of the boolean attribute are internal and external.