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externalizer
[ ik-stur-nl-ahy-zer ]
noun
, Psychology.
- a person who draws a locus of control from the external world, depending on others as a source of values, ideas, and security.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of externalizer1
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Example Sentences
She is a relentless externalizer, which infuses her plots with a certain energy; but many of her characters do things for reasons they don’t seem to understand themselves, and the reader ends up little wiser.
From The New Yorker
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