The level of a person's social isolation (or connectedness) is typically measured using outward characteristics such as marital status, number of friends, and frequency of social activities.

The other hamlets form a semicircle and remain slightly isolated, still retaining the outward characteristics of the ancient casali (hamlets).

Defensive mimicry includes the well-known Batesian and Müllerian forms of mimicry, where the mimic shares outward characteristics with an aposematic or harmful model.

She judged a man by his performance, not his outward characteristics; she had read Shen's soul, and found him more than satisfactory.

It might have been more appropriate to say that Kechara was a neuter, for she had none of the outward sexual characteristics of a female gryphon.

Charles Arthur in The Guardian said that "Wikipedia, and so many other online activities, show all the outward characteristics of a cult."

TWENTY THE most obvious outward characteristic of Tesla's life was his proclivity for feeding pigeons in public places.

The introduction, written by Meher Baba, explains their unique state and their outward characteristics.

He's familiar with the outward characteristics of different kinds of workings.

The red belly of these New World monkeys is its most remarkable outward characteristic.