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Meaning of extrinsication | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The act or process of extrinsicating.

countable, uncountable

Examples

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

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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