externalization
- noun
- /ɪkˌstɜrnəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- 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.
- Yeah, years ago I realized that every single shop is the externalization of a philosophy about how to work.
- The role of the popular decoration is the externalisation, the idea of the gaze, the idea of the house looking out on the street.
- And he goes on and says in unity with its externalization, it's an oisohong.
- This externalization, this kenosis, there's no kenosis in the actual text is equally an externalization of itself.
Examples
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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.
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The role of the popular decoration is the externalisation, the idea of the gaze, the idea of the house looking out on the street.
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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.
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In therapy, externalization helps clients express their inner thoughts and feelings more clearly.
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The designer's work is an externalization of their unique perspective on modern life.
Synonyms
Making inner feelings or ideas show on the outside
A spirit that appears in a visible or bodily form
Antonyms
- Specialized
The process of making beliefs or ways of behaving part of a person's thinking and actions
How Externalized
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.