externalises

Makes feelings visible

Externalises is the British spelling of externalizes.

To externalise is to express or manifest something internal—making thoughts, feelings, or costs visible to others.

A child externalises anxiety through tantrums.

In economics, a company externalises costs by pushing them onto society: The factory externalised pollution costs onto the community.

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

psychological

projects

Organized efforts toward goals

deflects · blames · redirects · manifests · expresses · releases · vents · channels · offloads · defense mechanism

expression

manifests

Shows or demonstrates plainly

demonstrates · expresses · communicates · verbalizes · articulates · voices · exhibits · outwardly · shares · broadcasts

economic

outsources

Assigns work externally

costs · pollution · market failure · environmental impact · spillover · pricing · unaccounted · passes on · regulation · carbon emissions

Opposites
expression vs. containment

externalisesinternalises

Absorbs into one's thinking

suppresses · represses · bottles up · insources · hides

outward vs. inward direction

externalisesinternalises

Absorbs into one's thinking

absorbs · takes in · incorporates · assimilates

Family

externalise, externalised, externalisation

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