Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun externalization

2 senses of externalization

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)