to externalize
- verb
- /ɪkˈstɜrnəˌlaɪz/
- Many therapists encourage their clients to externalize their thoughts through journaling.
- externalizing behavior
- externalizing problems
- externalizing disorders
I think it's because society externalizes our attention.
- I think it's because society externalizes our attention.
- And the divine being is what is externalizing itself.
- Now he also tells us that self consciousness externalizes itself.
- We presume that we've passed the stage of needing to externalise our importance.
- Social media and technology is externalizing our perception.
- And I worry about how much people are externalising their locus of control.
- There was no version of myself that I wouldn't externalize and that fucks you up.
- I can't externalise what I remember visually very well.
- What are the externalizing behaviors that you're doing when you're reacting?
- So projection is when we take our own thoughts and feelings and we externalize them as coming from other people.
- What we do is we externalize our confidence and it causes so much pain.
- And that a great deal of the communication and the, the, the joint understanding is externalized in that way.
- There are micro theories within each of these, lots of rules of thumb and lots of understanding which is not externalized theoretically.
- That's a subtle thing to hold And and developmentally, children are more vulnerable to their self worth being externalized like this.
- We're starting to externalise, we're starting to talk about these things is making people feel they're not alone is massive.
Examples
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So projection is when we take our own thoughts and feelings and we externalize them as coming from other people.
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Using art can help you externalize your emotions in a tangible way.
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How do I externalize this to achieve this thing that I want?
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So it's necessary for force to to externalize or to express itself.
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I think it's because society externalizes our attention.
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It's like externalizing beyond yourself the sources of the things you need for yourself.
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We have gotten so externalized that we have stopped going internal to see what it is that self is looking for.
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And then you realise that actually you're, what you're doing is externalising what is inside.
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But I'm hoping that doesn't influence you too much and you'll find your own ways of externalizing the internal.
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You use notebooks, sketches, diagrams, models, prototypes to help externalize the products of your imagination.
Synonyms
To make an idea or feeling into a real, visible thing
To show your thoughts or feelings so others can see them
Antonyms
How Externalized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Externalize comes from the prefix ex- meaning 'out' and from external meaning 'outside', as in the simple word exit. So to externalize a thought or feeling is to 'move it out' of your inside and make it visible or clear to others.