outside world
noun1
Idiomatic The rest of the world outside of some closed, restricted, or remote environment.
- 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.1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 179–180:
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences The world external to the human mind.
- Synonyms
- external world