Definition of "internalisation" [internalisation]

• Alternative spelling of internalization. (noun)

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• "Furthermore, after exposure to stress, male rats had an adaptive response, called internalisation, in their brain cells."
• "Actually, if I wasn't so ashamed of my cowardice, vanity, too posh to pushness and internalisation of gynophobic values, I'd definitely confess to my elective, NHS caesarean."
• "If the internalisation of the values appropriate to it fails, then civil liberties are threatened — on the one side by the growth of crime and private violence, and on the other by the growth of governmental intervention to contain them."