externalize

externalize, exteriorize, externalise or exteriorise (ɪkˈstɜːnəˌlaɪz, ɪkˈstɪərɪəˌraɪz)

—vb
1.	to make external; give outward shape to
2.	psychol to attribute (one's own feelings) to one's surroundings

exteriorize, exteriorize, externalise or exteriorise

—vb

externalise, exteriorize, externalise or exteriorise

—vb

exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise or exteriorise

—vb

externali'zation, exteriorize, externalise or exteriorise

—n

exteriori'zation, exteriorize, externalise or exteriorise

—n

externali'sation, exteriorize, externalise or exteriorise

—n

exteriori'sation, exteriorize, externalise or exteriorise

—n

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Example sentences

Externalize literal usage of dates wherever possible.

Current business in the generic sense seeks to externalize costs.

Emitters of greenhouse gases externalize the true costs of their contribution to climate change.

He has the same generous impulse as a playwright: to externalize the metaphysics of being.

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"Conscience ... lacks the power to externalize itself, the power to make itself into a Thing, and to endure being. It lives in dread of besmirching the splendour of its inner being by action and an existence; and in order to preserve the purity of its heart, it flees from contact with the actual world, and persists in its self-willed impotence to renounce its self which is reduced to the extreme of ultimate abstraction, and to give itself a substantial existence, or to transform its thought into being.... Its activity is a yearning which merely loses itself as consciousness becomes an object devoid of substance, and, rising above this loss, and falling back on itself, finds itself only as a lost soul. In this transparent purity of its moments, an unhappy, so-called 'beautiful soul,' its light dies away within it, and it vanishes like a shapeless vapour that dissolves into thin air."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel