from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
transitive verb To present or regard as an object.
transitive verb To make objective, external, or concrete.
from The Century Dictionary.
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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
transitive verb 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
verb to make something (such as an abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses
verb to treat as something objectivelyreal
verb to treat as a mereobject and deny the dignity of
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb make external or objective, or give reality to
verb make impersonal or present as an object
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The reasoning in the article is poor, and the author's claim that the word objectify "is often used, but rarely defined" is absurd.
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.
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.
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 ...
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