externalize meaning

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externalize (verb): regard as objective.

Spelling: externalise (British) · externalize (American)

externalize has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

externalize as a verb

  1. regard as objective

    Synonyms: project, externalise

    Type of: impute

  2. make external or objective, or give reality to
    • language externalizes our thoughts

    Synonyms: exteriorize, exteriorise, externalise, objectify

    Type of: change

Scrabble score: 27 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with EX · words ending in ZE · 11-letter words

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