externalise

A verb used to express the act of attributing something to an external cause or making something external or manifest.

• 🇩🇪Verb, das bezeichnet, etwas nach außen zu verlagern, sichtbar oder äußerlich zu machen oder etwas einer äußeren Ursache zuzuschreiben.

1. Regard as objective C1 formal

   To treat or consider something as having an objective reality outside the mind.

   • The philosopher argued that we externalise our thoughts into language.
   • In some cultures, people externalise their fears through rituals.
   • She tends to externalise her feelings, treating them as separate entities.

   🇩🇪Objektivieren

   Synonyme: hypostatizeobjectifyreify

2. Make external or give reality to C1 formal

   To express or manifest an internal thought, feeling, or idea in an outward, tangible form.

   • Artists externalise their inner visions through painting and sculpture.
   • He externalised his anger by writing a strongly worded letter.
   • The project helped the team externalise their abstract concepts into a concrete plan.

   🇩🇪Veräußerlichen

   Synonyme: concretizeembodyexpressexteriorizemanifestmaterializeobjectifyprojectreify

   Antonyme: containinternaliserepresssubduesuppresswithhold

• externalised past participle
• externalized past participle
• externalised past simple
• externalized past simple
• externalising present participle
• externalizing present participle
• externalises third person singular
• externalizes third person singular