externalise

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

• 🇫🇷Verbe utilisé pour désigner l'action d'attribuer quelque chose à une cause externe ou de rendre explicite quelque chose qui était interne, en le portant à l'extérieur.

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.

   🇫🇷Objectiver

   Synonymes: 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.

   🇫🇷externaliser

   Synonymes: concretizeembodyexpressexteriorizemanifestmaterializeobjectifyprojectreify

   Antonymes: 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