Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun externalisation
2 senses of externalisation
Sense 1
externalization, externalisation -- (attributing to outside causes)
=> attribution, ascription -- (assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso")
Sense 2
externalization, externalisation, exteriorization, exteriorisation -- (embodying in an outward form)
=> objectification -- (the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing)