Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb (psychology), Chiefly Brit. to incorporate within oneself; same as interiorize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal

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Examples

  • I'm going to take the most extraordinary political event that has happened in Britain for however many years and I am going to doggedly interiorise it and depoliticise it with a certain type of limpid prose . . .

    A life in writing: China Miéville 2011

  • Eliade likewise noted that shamans managed to “interiorise” a particular cultural mythology or cosmology before having their mystical experiences.

    Questions Of Faith James F. McGrath 2008

  • He said the next government would need to champion a national drive to enable people to get to access and interiorise knowledge and information.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

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