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externalization

externalization

1 8.5
Showing inner thoughts or feelings in an outward form
  • noun
  • /ɪkˌstɜrnəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
translation icon : externalización
  • Yeah, years ago I realized that every single shop is the externalization of a philosophy about how to work.

Yeah, years ago I realized that every single shop is the externalization of a philosophy about how to work.

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Examples

  • The music had a massive reception and provided a space for the externalization of feelings and a medium for participation.

    Academic text (1991)
  • This can now be understood as a way of guiding the externalization of the client's internal imagery.

    Academic text (2006)
  • All of this is just constant externalizations of my impatience.

  • The role of the popular decoration is the externalisation, the idea of the gaze, the idea of the house looking out on the street.

  • Case tells me his Katharine Hepburn personae are "externalizations of parts of myself."

    Academic text (1997)
  • I was particularly struck by the innermosthouse.com advice on libraries—that we have to select our books with care, making our library (I paraphrase loosely) an externalization of our soul.

    Blog text (9)
  • The mural on the wall is an externalization of the artist's struggles and triumphs.

  • In therapy, externalization helps clients express their inner thoughts and feelings more clearly.

  • The designer's work is an externalization of their unique perspective on modern life.

Synonyms

exteriorization
vsexternalization
1 9.0

Making inner feelings or ideas show on the outside

focuses on showing an inner experience outwardly
materialization
vsexternalization
8.5

A spirit that appears in a visible or bodily form

expresses internal experience into visible form rather than physical embodiment

Antonyms

internalization
  • Specialized
2 7.7

The process of making beliefs or ways of behaving part of a person's thinking and actions

How Externalized

embodiment
38 5.5
externalization
1 8.5
display
196 2.2
expression
230 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

externalization = externalize (transparent) = external + ization

The noun is regularly formed from the verb externalize by adding -ization.

Etymology

Externalization comes from external meaning 'outside', like the word exit which means 'go out', so think of making an inner thought or feeling become visible 'outside' you. So when an artist shows private feelings in a painting or a play, that is an externalization of their inner life.