exteriorize

[ ik-steer-ee-uh-rahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, ex·te·ri·or·ized, ex·te·ri·or·iz·ing.

1. to make exterior; externalize.
2. Surgery. to expose (an internal structure) temporarily outside the body, for observation, surgery, or experimentation.

exteriorize

/ ɪkˈstɪərɪəˌraɪz /

verb

1. surgery to expose (an attached organ or part) outside a body cavity, esp in order to remove it from an operating area
2. another word for externalize

Derived Forms

• exˌterioriˈzation, noun

Other Words From

• ex·teri·or·i·zation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of exteriorize¹

First recorded in 1875–80; exterior + -ize

Example Sentences

Sanders has spent his life transposing heavy human thought into gusting human breath, but hearing him exteriorize a few casual brain waves this intimately might be what finally blows you clean out of your life.

From Washington Post

Miranda’s ravaged inner life is exteriorized as in the medieval genre of psychomachia in which virtue and vice wage a battle for the soul.

From Seattle Times

Somehow the internet has become this exteriorized imagination.

From Salon

Keltner’s approach to touch turns on the deeper idea that consciousness itself is “exteriorized”—that we are alive in relation to others, not in relation to some imagined inner self, the homunculus in our heads.

From The New Yorker

The book, as a result, has a vague, detached, strangely exteriorized quality.

From Los Angeles Times