Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
internalize \internalize\ v. t. (Psychology) to incorporate within oneself.
Syn: internalise, interiorize, interiorise.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, American English, from internal + -ize. Related: Internalized; internalizing.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) To make something internal; to incorporate it in oneself. 2 (context transitive computing English) To store (a string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the same value can share the same instance. Often abbreviated to ''intern''. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make something internal; to incorporate it in oneself. 2 (context transitive computing English) To store (a string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the same value can share the same instance. Often abbreviated to ''intern''.
WordNet
v. incorporate within oneself; make subjectiveor personal; "internalize a belief" [syn: internalise, interiorize, interiorise]
Usage examples of "internalize".
Now, in some hidden and suppressed corner of his psyche, the character himself internalizes the full social-political implications of his resentments, and his consciousness thus contains an explicit, ideologically subversive dimension.
In other words, the different segments of the outside are internalized not on a model of similitude but as different organs that function together in one coherent body.
We must carry out a thorough study of both the published compositions and the more theoretical writings, to make out and internalize the rules and principles for this kind of music.
Thus what we describe as environmental regularities are not external features that have been internalized, as representationism and adaptationism both assume.
The result in internalized high dissipation of energy is that stress is foisted upon the physical systems, and health problems (sometimes coming and going like magic) result.
I had hoped that, in time, I would be able to open up to the game here, having understood and internalized the fundamentals David was teaching me.
Even many people who understand intellectually that change is accelerating, have not internalized that knowledge, do not take this critical social fact into account in planning their own personal lives.
The individual who has internalized the principle of acceleration--who understands in his bones as well as his brain that things are moving faster in the world around him--makes an automatic, unconscious compensation for the compression of time.
This radically altered fact of life must be internalized by decision-makers in industry, government and elsewhere.
Spousal ire directed silently at mates, the petty squabbles of children, silent internalized hatreds, secret loves: he'd managed to reduce them all to a kind off perceptual static in the back of his mind.
For one thing, the internalized conflict that was always present in his own kind was absent.
He had internalized it without ever realizing it, and with it he had internalized all those other "human" emotions, after a fashion, at least.
Among the human qualities the vast computer had internalized was one he no doubt wished he could have avoided: impatience.
It is not yet internalized, not yet a part of the totality of your being and responses.
I was far more of an “object,” a thing manipulated by the internalized demands of others, a thing not daring to feel, a thing not daring to be true to itself, when I was free than I am now, a slave girl in the uncompromising shackles of your bondage.