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Objectify

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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.

The 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.

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

v. make external or objective, or give reality to

v. make impersonal or present as an object

Word Usage

"The reasoning in the article is poor, and the author's claim that the word objectify "is often used, but rarely defined" is absurd."

Verb Form

objectified objectifies objectifying

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change modify alter

Variant

objectified

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

reify