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out·sid·er
ˌaʊtˈsaɪ dərShow Spelled[out-sahy-der] Show IPA noun 1. a person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc.: Society often regards the artist as an outsider.
2. a person unconnected or unacquainted with the matter in question: Not being a parent, I was regarded as an outsider.
3. a racehorse, sports team, or other competitor not considered likely to win or
succeed.
4. a person or thing not within an enclosure, boundary, etc.
Origin: 1790–1800; outside+ -er1
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outsider(ˌaʊtˈsaɪdə)
—n
1. a person or thing excluded from or not a member of a set, group, etc
2. a contestant, esp a horse, thought unlikely to win in a race
3. (Canadian) (in the north) a person who does not live in the Arctic regions
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Word Origin & History outsider
1800, from outside; figurative sense of "a person isolated from conventional society" is first recorded 1907. The sense of race horses "outside" the
favorites is from 1836; hence outside chance (1909). Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper Cite This Source
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"From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe a man's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider."
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