Other forms: exteriors
The exterior is the outside surface of something. The face it shows the world.
Buildings and cars use it plainly, so the exterior of a house is what needs painting and exterior paint is made for weather. Film uses it as a technical term, and a scene marked exterior is shot outdoors. The figurative sense is about people, since a calm exterior can hide a great deal, and that phrase is close to fixed. Its exact opposite is interior, and outside and inside are the plain versions of both.
Latin
exterior
English, today
exterior
From Latin exterior.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove, A Song of Ice and Fire
First appears in chapter 2 of A Man Called Ove.
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