externalization
Americannoun
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the act or process of externalizing.
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the quality or state of being externalized.
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something that is externalized.
Etymology
Origin of externalization
First recorded in 1795–1805; externalize + -ation
Example Sentences
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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
But thoughts, as potent entities, must pass from the formative, nebulous condition into a crystallized state by, and through some form of externalization of language, spoken or written.
From Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul by Scofield, Anna Bishop
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