Objectify

Quick meaning: Objectify is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To make (something, such as an abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To make (something, such as an abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To treat (something) as objectively real.
2. (transitive, originally feminism) To treat (someone) as a mere (usually sexual) object; to sexually dehumanize (someone).

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: demean, fetishize

The mystic objectifies a rich feeling in the pit of the stomach into a cosmology.

The entire notion of cheerleading is just a sexist attempt to try to objectify the female body.

It was the unknown, objectified at last, in concrete flesh and blood, bending over him and reaching down to seize hold of him.

Word Forms

• objectifies
• objectifying
• objectified

Synonyms for objectify

Depending on context, synonyms include objectivize, reify, thingify, demean, fetishize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include objectivate, objectize, objectivize, objectivise, physicalize, perceptualize.

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