extrinsication
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From extrinsicate + -ion.
Noun
[edit]extrinsication (countable and uncountable, plural extrinsications)
- 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.