Externalize
verb
To express or display (an emotion or feeling) that is normally kept inside.
He externalized his anger by yelling at his staff.
Often appears as...
- externalize anger
- externalize feelings
verb
To transform (an internal process) into one that can be seen or measured externally.
In therapy, the patient learned to externalize her anxiety.
Often appears as...
- externalize anxiety
- externalize disease
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To make (something) available for others to see or access.
The company decided to externalize their codebase for transparency.
Often appears as...
- externalize code
- externalize data
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To assign (a cost or responsibility) to someone outside of the organization.
The company externalized the maintenance cost by outsourcing the work.
Often appears as...
- externalize cost
- externalize responsibility
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
To express or display (an emotion or feeling) that is normally kept inside.
He externalized his anger by yelling at his staff.
Often appears as...
- externalize anger
- externalize feelings
verb
To transform (an internal process) into one that can be seen or measured externally.
In therapy, the patient learned to externalize her anxiety.
Often appears as...
- externalize anxiety
- externalize disease
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To make (something) available for others to see or access.
The company decided to externalize their codebase for transparency.
Often appears as...
- externalize code
- externalize data
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To assign (a cost or responsibility) to someone outside of the organization.
The company externalized the maintenance cost by outsourcing the work.
Often appears as...
- externalize cost
- externalize responsibility
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Displaying Emotions
Used when someone shows how they feel, especially if they usually keep it inside.
After the game, he externalized his joy with a loud cheer.
Pro Tip 2/3Effect on Relationships
Consider who is affected when emotions are externalized, as it may impact relationships.
She externalized her frustration with the project, straining her ties with coworkers.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Intensity
Externalizing shows the intensity of an emotion; more intense feelings are expressed more visibly.
His face reddened as he externalized his embarrassment.
Pro Tip 1/3Displaying Emotions
Used when someone shows how they feel, especially if they usually keep it inside.
After the game, he externalized his joy with a loud cheer.
Pro Tip 2/3Effect on Relationships
Consider who is affected when emotions are externalized, as it may impact relationships.
She externalized her frustration with the project, straining her ties with coworkers.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Intensity
Externalizing shows the intensity of an emotion; more intense feelings are expressed more visibly.
His face reddened as he externalized his embarrassment.
Pro Tip 1/3Displaying Emotions
Used when someone shows how they feel, especially if they usually keep it inside.
After the game, he externalized his joy with a loud cheer.
Pro Tip 2/3Effect on Relationships
Consider who is affected when emotions are externalized, as it may impact relationships.
She externalized her frustration with the project, straining her ties with coworkers.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Intensity
Externalizing shows the intensity of an emotion; more intense feelings are expressed more visibly.
His face reddened as he externalized his embarrassment.
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Video examples
Depression, the secret...
I said, "What kind of trouble did you have?" And he said, "Well, they would do this bizarre thing. They didn't take people out in the sunshine where you begin to feel better. They didn't include drumming or music to get people's blood going. They didn't involve the whole community. They didn't externalize the depression as an invasive spirit.
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Feats of memory anyone...
printing press photography the computer the smartphone that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity these technologies have made our modern world possible but they've also changed us they've changed
Video examples
Depression, the secret...
I said, "What kind of trouble did you have?" And he said, "Well, they would do this bizarre thing. They didn't take people out in the sunshine where you begin to feel better. They didn't include drumming or music to get people's blood going. They didn't involve the whole community. They didn't externalize the depression as an invasive spirit.
Video examples
Feats of memory anyone...
printing press photography the computer the smartphone that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity these technologies have made our modern world possible but they've also changed us they've changed
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Quote examples
Joshua Foer
American Journalist
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.
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Hunter Schafer
American Model
It's cool how to see how my creative juices have shown themselves when they're not being used for 'Euphoria' every day. I'm trying to find a new rhythm as to how I'm going to externalize my artistic energies. It's a moment of re-formation.
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Yorgos Lanthimos
Greek Director
I am calm but on the outside, mostly. When I'm on a film set, the stress is so humongous that I'm dying inside - I'm extremely stressed, but I do try, and... well, I don't try. I think it's my natural reaction to not externalize things.
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Clive Thompson
Canadian Journalist
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
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Chris Terrio
American Director
In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
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James Taylor
American Musician
Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
Quote examples
Joshua Foer
American Journalist
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.
Quote examples
Hunter Schafer
American Model
It's cool how to see how my creative juices have shown themselves when they're not being used for 'Euphoria' every day. I'm trying to find a new rhythm as to how I'm going to externalize my artistic energies. It's a moment of re-formation.
Quote examples
Yorgos Lanthimos
Greek Director
I am calm but on the outside, mostly. When I'm on a film set, the stress is so humongous that I'm dying inside - I'm extremely stressed, but I do try, and... well, I don't try. I think it's my natural reaction to not externalize things.
Quote examples
Clive Thompson
Canadian Journalist
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
Quote examples
Chris Terrio
American Director
In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
Quote examples
James Taylor
American Musician
Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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