Definition of "interiorize" []

• To cause (feelings, for example) to become an interior or internal part of one's mental or spiritual being; internalize: "In a number of earlier movies, [he] interiorized emotion so much that he became inexpressive” ( Pauline Kael). (verb-transitive)

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• "The West tries to 'interiorize' its difference with other cultures - it tries to find a universality of 'the anthropos'."
• "What happens when these young men and women begin to interiorize the way they are portrayed by society at large?"
• "Yet at the same time the child's very nature also presented a threat to his own existence and survival, as was made evident in many sources that sought to interiorize the blame for the crusaders 'failure."