objectify
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA: /əbˈdʒɛktɪˌfaɪ/
objectify
- To make something (such as an abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses.
- 1906: Jack London, White Fang
- It was the unknown, objectified at last, in concrete flesh and blood, bending over him and reaching down to seize hold of him.
- 1906: Jack London, White Fang
- To treat as something objectively real.
- 1921: Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
- The mystic objectifies a rich feeling in the pit of the stomach into a cosmology.
- 1921: Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
- To treat as a mere object and deny the dignity of.
- 1994 "Book review: Fire With Fire", backlash.com
- Shetalks about the fact that women objectify men just as much as men objectify women, and she even admits her culpability in doing so by talking about how sometimes she wishes she had a group of "nubile 17 year old soccer players" to keep her happy.
- 1999: Dawson's Creek (TV, episode 3.04)
- The entire notion of cheerleading is just a sexist attempt to try to objectify the female body.
- 1994 "Book review: Fire With Fire", backlash.com
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