What is another word for externalities?

Pronunciation: [ɛkstˈɜːnˈalɪtiz] (IPA)

Externalities are costs or benefits that are incurred by a third party that has no involvement in a transaction or activity. Synonyms for externalities include spillover effects, third-party effects, and external costs/benefits. Spillover effects refer to the effects that a transaction or activity has on other parties that were not initially involved. Third-party effects encompass a similar idea, but also emphasize that the affected parties have no say in the transaction or activity. External costs and benefits emphasize the financial impact of these effects, with external costs referring to the negative financial impact on third parties and external benefits referring to the positive financial impact gained by third parties.

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What are the hypernyms for Externalities?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    marginal cost, marginal utility, external costs, productive efficiency, economic impact, Economic Consequences, External Benefits, External Disadvantages, External Effects, Social Costs, Spillover Effects.

What are the opposite words for externalities?

Externalities are defined as the side effects or consequences of an action that affects someone who is not a direct participant in the action. Antonyms for externalities include "internalities," "intrinsic effects," or "self-contained outcomes." These antonyms suggest that the impacts of an action are limited to the immediate parties involved and do not extend beyond that. They also allude to the idea that the outcomes of any given action can be self-contained and not involve any external parties. In contrast, externalities often refer to indirect consequences that are not always apparent until later on, and can have far-reaching effects on society and the economy.

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Usage examples for Externalities

For Christian, she sat by the fire, where her husband had placed her, absently taking in the externalities-warm, somber, luxurious-which, in all human probability, was now her home for life.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
But at first he could not, apparently, get free from it: and he might have seemed unable to dispense with its almost mechanical externalities of mis-spelling and the like.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Famous quotes with Externalities

  • India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
    Sri Aurobindo

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