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The exit music that convinces you the ending was intentional.
means A closing passage of music, speech, or video that signals an ending, the structural mirror-image of an intro.
from A late-20th-century coinage built by analogy: 'intro' (from Latin 'introducere,' to lead in) got an opposite stitched together from Latin 'ex' or 'extra,' meaning out. It's not a word with ancient roots — it's a tidy bit of linguistic symmetry, invented because 'intro' existed and 'outro' was the obvious, satisfying rhyme to fill the gap.
- etymology
- Backformed from intro, not actually Latin
- function
- Signals closure even when the argument didn't resolve
- podcasts
- Often longer than the actual point made
- film use
- Credits music nobody stays to hear