Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To cause (feelings, for example) to become an interior or internal part of one's mental or spiritual being; internalize.

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

  • transitive verb (Psychology) to incorporate within oneself.

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  • verb transitive To internalize; to bring inside oneself.

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

  • verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal

Etymologies

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interior +‎ -ize

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Examples

  • The West tries to 'interiorize' its difference with other cultures - it tries to find a universality of 'the anthropos'.

    Archive 2009-02-01 enowning 2009

  • What happens when these young men and women begin to interiorize the way they are portrayed by society at large?

    American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang 2008

  • 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.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • At the other end of this conversation is the principled position that there objective indicators of goodness in writing, that we know what they are, and that we need to help students interiorize and aspire to those standards.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Bruce Schauble 2006

  • At the other end of this conversation is the principled position that there objective indicators of goodness in writing, that we know what they are, and that we need to help students interiorize and aspire to those standards.

    Reader Response Bruce Schauble 2006

  • This is the first condition: We ourselves must interiorize the structure, the words of the liturgy, the Word of God.

    Pope's Response to Priests on the Liturgy Argent 2006

  • Benedict wants to re-interiorize Catholicism by redirecting the Church's sources from the polluted waters of progressivism and materialism, drawing her sap anew from the healthiest old roots.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Mike L 2005

  • Benedict wants to re-interiorize Catholicism by redirecting the Church's sources from the polluted waters of progressivism and materialism, drawing her sap anew from the healthiest old roots.

    The program of Pope Benedict XVI Mike L 2005

  • I didn't know how to deal with all that, I didn't know how to interpret it, how to interiorize it, how I felt when we heard that Meredith had been killed.

    NYT > Home Page By J. DAVID GOODMAN 2011

  • We also might never interiorize their suffering, and then we would never become "contemplatives in action."

    naplesnews.com Stories MICHAEL HICKEY 2010

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