extrinsication

extrinsication

English

Etymology

extrinsicate +‎ -tion

Noun

extrinsication (countable and uncountable, plural extrinsications)

1. The act or process of extrinsicating.
   • 1887, Charles Hamilton Hughes, Alienist and Neurologist - Volume 8, page 211:

     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.

   • 1964, Archie J. Bahm, Philosophy: An Introduction, page 298:

     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.

   • 2011, Chiara Bottici, ‎Benoît Challand, The Politics of Imagination, page 77:

     So why not exclude also the small band of determinable consciousness, obtaining in exchange the entire psychic extrinsication, namely behavior?

   • 2013, Rita Petrini, The Woman with a Hat Full of Cherries, page 542:

     "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.