externalization

American  

[ik-stur-nl-uh-zey-shuhn] / ɪkˌstɜr nl əˈzeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act or process of externalizing.

2. the quality or state of being externalized.

3. something that is externalized.

---

Etymology

Origin of externalization

First recorded in 1795–1805; externalize + -ation

Example Sentences

Despite its contradictory history as a symbol of democracy built by enslaved people, it is a blameless externalization of America.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2025

Interludes in which the accusing faces of prisoners silently fill the frame act as a sort of externalization of his survivor’s guilt.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

There’s a hunger for entertainment that favors unflinching articulation and externalization over implication and internalization — to have our greatest fears verbalized without restraint, even heavy-handedly, along with a good deal of style and wit.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2022

In screenwriting, though, externalization is everything, and her characteristic restraint was her signal contribution to the other great triangle of her life: Jhabvala, Merchant, Ivory.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

By taking, as the material of his intuition and aesthetic externalization, precisely the destination of the object, which serves a practical end.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto