interiorization
Making something internal
Interiorization is the process of taking something external and making it internal—absorbing attitudes, values, or practices until they become part of one's inner life.
Psychology uses the term for how children adopt social norms: Through interiorization, external rules become internal conscience.
The word overlaps with internalization but emphasizes the spatial metaphor of moving inward.
Unconscious absorption of external values
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- incorporationForming a legal entity
- identificationEstablishing who someone is
- self-regulationManaging one's own behavior
inwardness · enculturation · acculturation · socialization · adaptation · conformity · habituation · personalization
Mental understanding of meaning
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- absorptionProcess of taking in
- learningGaining knowledge gradually
grasp · insight · acquisition · retention · conceptualization · integration · digestion · processing
Express through physical form
- incorporateAbsorb into something larger
- ingrainFix deeply, permanently
- instillImpart gradually over time
- absorbTake in fully
integrate · infuse · adopt · habituate · assimilate · make one's own · take in · embrace
Scrutiny of one's thoughts
- self-reflectionExamining one's own mind
- self-analysisScrutinizing one's own psyche
- soul-searchingProbing one's innermost feelings
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
meditation · rumination · self-observation · self-scrutiny · self-awareness · self-questioning · self-inquiry · introspectiveness
introjection
Unconscious absorption of external values
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- incorporationForming a legal entity
- identificationEstablishing who someone is
self-regulation · inwardness · enculturation · acculturation · socialization · adaptation · conformity · habituation · personalization · integration
comprehension
Mental understanding of meaning
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- absorptionProcess of taking in
learning · grasp · insight · acquisition · retention · conceptualization · integration · digestion · processing · deep learning
embody
Express through physical form
- incorporateAbsorb into something larger
- ingrainFix deeply, permanently
- instillImpart gradually over time
absorb · integrate · infuse · adopt · habituate · assimilate · make one's own · take in · embrace · appropriate
self-examination
Scrutiny of one's thoughts
- self-reflectionExamining one's own mind
- self-analysisScrutinizing one's own psyche
- soul-searchingProbing one's innermost feelings
contemplation · meditation · rumination · self-observation · self-scrutiny · self-awareness · self-questioning · self-inquiry · introspectiveness · self-study
interiorizationexternalization
Making internal things external
projection · exteriorization · acting out · displacement · objectification
interiorizationexteriorization
Expressing what's within
externalization · expulsion · ejection · extrusion · emission
intern, internal, interior, intestine, inter, internalize, internalizes, internalized, internalizing