outward: meaning and definitions

Of, located on, or moving toward the outside or exterior; outer.

Relating to the physical self: a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections.

Purely external; superficial: outward composure.

Toward the outside; away from a central point.

Archaic On the outside; externally.

The material or external world: "There is nothing here,/Which, from the outward to the inward brought,/Molded thy baby thought” ( Tennyson).