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extrinsication en · NOUN

Etymology

From extrinsicate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of extrinsicating.
   • So why not exclude also the small band of determinable consciousness, obtaining in exchange the entire psychic extrinsication, namely behavior? 2011, Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand, The Politics of Imagination, page 77:
   • "There is something special in you, something reassuring. Something that soothes the soul. When you are in this room I am no longer aware that it is small, ordinary, suffocating almost like a prison. I feel content,” continued Oriana whose physical and spiritual pain had by now removed any barrier of reticence in the extrinsication of her true feelings for the other. 2013, Rita Petrini, The Woman with a Hat Full of Cherries, page 542:
   • The process of putting on a canvas what the artist has in mind Croce calls “extrinsication,” not creation, for the actual painting adds nothing but extrinsication to the artistic intuition already created in the artist's mind. 1964, Archie J. Bahm, Philosophy: An Introduction, page 298:
   • The different elementary acts , of which language consists , are functional extrinsications of diverse parts of the brain, which are closely affiliated in reciprocal functional, and therefore, anatomical relation. 1887, Charles Hamilton Hughes, Alienist and Neurologist - Volume 8, page 211:

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