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The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals. This externalism gave Catholicism a great advantage on all sides. E. Eggleston.

The quality of being extraordinary. [R.] Gov. of the Tongue.

The state or quality of being extrinsic.

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .

An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South.

The state or quality of being famous. [Obs.] Johnson.

Quality of being fangled. [Obs.] He them in new fangleness did pass. Spenser.

The quality of being fantastic.

The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.

Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character. He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther. F. Anstey.

Quality of bbeing farsighted.

, . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.

The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh. Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. lxxiii. 7.

State or quality of being fatty.

Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.

The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. Boyle.

The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.

The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.