Exterioration

/ɛkstɪərɪəˈreɪʃən/ noun

Definition

The act or process of making something external, visible, or manifest; the condition of being revealed to the outside.

Etymology

From exteriorate + -ion (noun-forming suffix). This abstract noun describes the process of bringing internal things into external form or visibility.

Kelly Says

This word is almost completely lost to history—it appears in maybe a handful of philosophical texts from the 1600s-1700s where thinkers struggled to describe how minds create the external world.

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