Synonyms of externalizing

externalizing

verb

present participle of externalize

as in embodying

to represent in visible form

an actress with an expressive face that wonderfully externalizes a wide range of emotions

Synonyms & Similar Words

• embodying
• expressing
• incorporating
• manifesting
• personalizing
• symbolizing
• personifying
• instantiating
• realizing
• illustrating
• exemplifying
• incarnating
• materializing
• actualizing
• bodying
• substantiating
• epitomizing
• objectifying
• concretizing
• typifying
• imaging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disembodying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of externalizing

The savings from externalizing costs—for example, keeping farmers poor, letting soils deplete, clearing forests—are now lower than the benefits of internalizing value—for example, training farmers, restoring ecosystems, paying a living income. — Santiago Gowland, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

His currently pending Senate Bill 1182 requires that developers in wildfire-prone areas address insurability risks upfront instead of externalizing those costs onto the FAIR Plan and, ultimately, the public. — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 15 May 2026

That’s in part because girls don’t tend to display some of the big externalizing behaviors, like aggression or tantrums, that people tend to associate with autism in boys, Black says. — Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2026

Parents completed questionnaires about their child’s mental health symptoms, both internalizing such as depression and anxiety and externalizing such as ADHD or behavioral issues. — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025

The study also found that negative coparenting leads to a range of internalizing and externalizing problems for kids later in life. — Essence, 2 Sep. 2025