Definition of Exteriorize

1. Verb. Bring outside the body for surgery, of organs.

Exact synonyms: Bring Outside
Generic synonyms: Displace, Move
Derivative terms: Exteriorization

2. Verb. Make external or objective, or give reality to. "Language externalizes our thoughts"

Definition of Exteriorize

1. Verb. To externalize ¹

2. Verb. (surgery) To expose an internal organ (for observation or surgery) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exteriorize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exteriorize

extenuatory
exterior
exterior-angle
exterior angle
exterior angles
exterior door
exteriorisation
exteriorise
exteriorised
exteriorises
exteriorising
exteriorities
exteriority
exteriorization
exteriorizations
exteriorize (current term)
exteriorized
exteriorizes
exteriorizing
exteriorly
exteriors
exteriour
exteriourly
exteriours
exterminable
exterminate
exterminated
exterminates
exterminating
extermination

Literary usage of Exteriorize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Psychology of Drawing: With Special Reference to Laboratory Teaching by Fred Carleton Ayer (1916)
"The lines do not exteriorize, but seem to fix the characteristics in the mind ... The drawings seem to exteriorize the story and facilitate the narrative. ..."

2. The Ground and Goal of Human Life by Charles Gray Shaw (1919)
"Its effect has been, and always must be, to exteriorize the worker to such a degree that he will live and act external to himself; the worker cannot be one ..."

3. The Psychology of Reasoning: Based on Experimental Researches in Hypnotism by Alfred Binet (1899)
"J This amounts to saying that we exteriorize an association of images as we exteriorize an image. III. We have just seen that the percept is a complicated ..."

4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"When you are willing to spend labor, time, effort of the intellect and will, for anything outside yourself, you exteriorize your will, you put your thinking ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"He does not exteriorize sensations, but sees, as he expresses it, the color in his brain. Of the vowels a is carmine ; e. white ; i, black ; o, yellow ; u, ..."

6. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1894)
"The thoughts in his mind are very clear and his words precise, but he cannot exteriorize them at all. "There is present but one symptom and that is the ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"The thoughts in his mind are very clear and his words precise but he cannot exteriorize them at all. The newspapers which one hands him and the paper upon ..."

8. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Stanley P. L. Leong (1922)
"Without attempting further investigation traction was made on the diverticulum so as to exteriorize it to the fullest extent beyond the internal ring. ..."

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