EXTERNALIZATION Synonyms: 31 Similar Words

externalization

noun

ek-ˌstər-nə-lə-ˈzā-shən

Definition of externalization

as in manifestation

a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) bizarre paintings that are the externalization of a very troubled psyche

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Recent Examples of externalization Regardless, there’s a clear symbolism to Clark empathizing and embracing a bloated externalization of his own inchoate fury until someone with an outside perspective disturbs his peace, and that fury breaks loose and devours him. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 29 May 2026 The trade-off for that short-term satisfaction is the externalization of a thinking process that used to live inside a junior associate’s head. — Jeff Raikes, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026 The cumulative effect could be the gradual externalization of state capacity. — Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 19 Mar. 2026 Virtuoso delivers accurate externalization and localization of sound, ensuring mix decisions translate well to loudspeakers. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 But this depiction of public shaming feels like a paranoid fantasy, an externalization of May’s guilt, rather than a believable development. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024

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One manifestation of that shift is a Holiday Inn Express ad campaign that ran for more than a decade beginning in 1998 and showed ordinary people completing complex tasks such as brain surgery that were far outside their professional expertise.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
The dropping/suspension was the beginning of the end, or at least the most public manifestation of the beginning of the end.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026

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