externalised

Expressed outside oneself

Externalised is the British spelling of externalized, the past tense of externalize.

To externalize is to express or manifest something internal—making private thoughts, feelings, or costs visible or external.

A child who externalizes anger acts out rather than brooding.

Companies externalize costs by pushing them onto society: The factory externalised its pollution costs onto the community.

In psychology, externalizing means attributing internal states to outside causes.

psychological

projection

Something that extends outward

blame · attribution · psychodynamics · countertransference · splitting · unconscious · psychoanalysis · Freudian · repression · introjection

embodiment

materialization

Coming into tangible existence

objectification · substantiation · incarnation · manifestation · tangible · physical · concrete · representation · symbol · evidence

expression

articulation

Clear vocal expression

utterance · voicing · declaration · proclamation · announcement · disclosure · revelation · broadcast · publication · airing

Opposites
direction of expression

externalisedinternalised

Adopted into oneself

internalized · internal · suppressed · bottled up · unexpressed

locus of attribution

externalisedinternalised

Adopted into oneself

owned · absorbed · acknowledged · self-directed

Family

externalise, externalisation

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