Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To present or regard as an object: "Because we have objectified animals, we are able to treat them impersonally” ( Barry Lopez).
- v. To make objective, external, or concrete: thoughts objectified in art.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make objective; present as an object; especially, to constitute as an object of sense; give form and shape to as an external object; externalize. Also objectivate, objectize.
Wiktionary
- v. to make something (such as an abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses
- v. to treat as something objectively real
- v. to treat as a mere object and deny the dignity of
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to represent or consider as an object; to render objective.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make external or objective, or give reality to
- v. make impersonal or present as an object
Examples
“The reasoning in the article is poor, and the author's claim that the word objectify "is often used, but rarely defined" is absurd.”
“To 'objectify' is to perceive or regard a person as an object.”
“Therefore, pornography cannot "objectify" a sexual act as the author claims, because an act in itself does not have any humanity to lose.”
“Sexual Relations With Hot Models - I never said the items on this list had to be "things," although I suppose a person who makes a living by selling products based entirely upon how they looking wearing and/or holding those things does kind of objectify them.”
“Another argument for the view that Republicans make better poker players is that poker rewards what feminists have long considered one of the worst attributes of men: the capacity to "objectify" the other.”
“A favorite example of mine is the old feminist declaration that men "objectify" women when they respond to female beauty as nature decrees.”
“She strikes me as a woman who would not "objectify" herself -- she doesn't need to do so, being at the top of her sport.”
“To a certain extent, it's more accepted that they "objectify" themselves, because they're guys, and guys are like, supposed to do that or something. said ...”
“Grace: "She’s not a goddess, she’s a Christian," says thesnarky female friend who also tells Ben not to "objectify" Amy –little Women’s Studies major in the making! to her horny male friends.”
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“Have the ad agencies finally started to wake up to the fact that trans women exist in the world – only to further objectify and exploit us in pursuit of the almighty euro/peso?”
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Good for Academics
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
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"Words, words, words."
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EAD
Just some random words that speak to me
fecklessness, malarky, absurd, quashed, hyperbole, woebegone, peripatetic, somber, sisyphean, bane, intolerance, bogus and 65 more...
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Borborgamy
pollywog, blain, lugubrious, lackadaisical, furbelow, masticate, nutate, rascal, optimize, objectify, maximize, bollard and 6 more...
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Sarilas's Words
chortle, serendipity, inept, retro, tenacious, penchant, mediocrity, claret, gust, pomp, circumstance, pageantry and 97 more...
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