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What does externalization mean?

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Noun
  1. The process of making something external, or visible from the outside.
  2. A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
  3. (psychology) In Freudian psychology, an unconscious defense mechanism by which an individual "projects" his or her own internal characteristics onto the outside world or other people.
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The decline of intolerance is a direct consequence of the externalization of the religious life.
The sound of it belongs to another era, the era of radio plays, when audiences relied on exposition and the externalization of a character's inner drama to keep the story moving.
With small differences among them, they have often been reticent or even hostile towards any disproportionate externalization of their practices.
On the whole, the casuistic regulation of church discipline led to its externalization and devaluation.
The three most persistent challenges to all these strategies are discounting, externalization of costs, and insufficient information.
It was a striking demonstration of the importance of picture on the stage as an externalization of dramatic facts.

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