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English
Etymology
From extrinsicate + -ion.
Noun
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.