externalisation

Thân thiện

The company's externalisation of its customer service improved efficiency.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The act of embodying in an outward form: The process of giving external, concrete, or visible form to an idea, feeling, or concept.
   • Attributing to outside causes: The psychological process of projecting internal feelings, motivations, or faults onto external factors or other people.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Embodiment):

  • The sculpture was a perfect externalisation of the artist's grief.
  • Writing the poem provided an externalisation of her complex emotions.

• Noun (Attribution):

  • His constant blame of others was a clear externalisation of his own insecurities.
  • In therapy, she worked on reducing her externalisation of responsibility.

Advanced Usage

• In Psychology: Refers specifically to a defense mechanism where a person attributes their own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to the external world.

  • The patient's paranoia was interpreted as an externalisation of his repressed anger.

• In Business/Philosophy: Can describe the process of making an abstract concept (like a cost or a benefit) tangible and accountable.

  • The externalisation of environmental costs is a major challenge for modern economics.

Variants and Related Words

• Externalize (verb): To give external existence or form to; to attribute to external causes.
  • He struggled to externalize his creative vision.
• External (adjective): Belonging to, situated on, or derived from the outside.

Synonyms

• Embodiment: The tangible or visible form of an idea, quality, or feeling.
• Projection: The attribution of one's own feelings or desires to another person (specifically in psychology).
• Manifestation: An event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something abstract.

Related Phrases

• Process of externalisation: The ongoing act of making something external.
  • The process of externalisation through art can be therapeutic.
• Defense mechanism of externalisation: A specific psychological term for attributing internal conflicts to the outside world.

Học thuật

Noun

1. embodying in an outward form
2. attributing to outside causes

Từ đồng nghĩa

• externalization
• exteriorization
• exteriorisation