What is the difference between exterior and interior?
exterior | interior | Antonyms |
Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
* Shakespeare
Being from outside a country; foreign.
Outdoors.
The outside part, parts or surface of something.
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Foreign lands.
Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
(mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.
Interior is an antonym of exterior.
As adjectives the difference between exterior and interior
is that exterior is relating to the outside parts or surface of something while interior is within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.As nouns the difference between exterior and interior
is that exterior is the outside part, parts or surface of something while interior is the inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.exterior
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Alternative forms
* exteriour (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- the exterior part of a sphere
- Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was.
- the exterior relations of a state or kingdom
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* interiorSee also
* externalNoun
(en noun)- The sticker was attached to the exterior of the package
- She is our new minister of the exterior
Antonyms
* interiorinterior
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Alternative forms
* interiour (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- the interior''' apartments of a house; the '''interior surface of a hollow ball
- the interior parts of a region or country
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* (l)Derived terms
* interior decoration * interior design * interior designerNoun
(en noun)- ''Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior .