internalizationn.

1853 Brit. & Foreign Evangelical Rev. 2 253 The principle of the review and of the party is the internalization of the Christian faith.

1890 J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. iv. 69 Nature is but the externalization of thought:—thought but the internalization of Nature.

1942 Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 23 8 (title) A contribution to the problem of sublimation and its relation to processes of internalization.

1954 T. Grygier Oppression i. i. 8 The introjection or internalization of aggressiveness.

1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. i. 20 Such people often behave differently when away from the group—they are showing overt compliance without internalization.

1973 Nature 20 Apr. 488/1 What the economists call an internalization of the externalities—making the motorist bear not merely the costs of operating his vehicle but the costs of what he does to other people.

1987 W. M. Rivers Interactive Lang. Teaching i. 8 It is not clear how listening can lead automatically to the internalization of a grammar that will be useful for expressing one's own ideas.

1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) xii. 724 Ligand binding can induce the internalization of receptors, which are then transiently sequestered inside the cell or are degraded in lysosomes.

2009 P. Glennie & N. Thrift Shaping Day ii. 44 These changes entailed the imposition and eventual internalization of the specific ‘time orientation’ to labour and life.