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externalize
[ ik-stur-nl-ahyz ]
verb (used with object)
- to make external; embody in an outward form.
- to regard as consisting of externals.
- to regard or treat as being caused by externals; attribute to external causes:
to externalize one's difficulties.
- to direct (the personality) outward in social relationships.
externalize
/ ɪkˈstɪərɪəˌraɪz; ɪkˈstɜːnəˌlaɪz /
verb
- to make external; give outward shape to
- psychol to attribute (one's own feelings) to one's surroundings
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Derived Forms
- exˌternaliˈzation, noun
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Other Words From
- nonex·ternal·ized adjective
- semi·ex·ternal·ized adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of externalize1
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Example Sentences
You cannot perform or externalize your vanity as overtly as Bieber did without again emphasizing to the world you are a jerk.
A change of will can always manifest itself in action but it is very difficult to externalize convincingly a mere change of heart.
Then live these in your mind, making no room for unclean thought, and you will externalize them in your body.
Gora Dwight had told him that he must learn to "externalize his emotions," and he felt that here was the supreme opportunity.
We encounter language as we continuously externalize our biological and cultural identities in the act of living as human beings.
Ideas express the implicit will of the human being to externalize them (what Marcuse called "the imperative quality" of thought).
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