Usually means: Attributing internal thoughts to outside.
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  2. externalization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  1. externalization: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (externalization)

noun:  The process of making something external, or visible from the outside.
noun:  A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
noun:  (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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