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How to pronounce objectify in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize
Type of alter, change, modify
Derivation object, objectification
Type Words
Synonyms depersonalise, depersonalize
Type of alter, change, modify

Examples of objectify

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The great religions objectify it by such names as God, Yahweh, Allah, and Brahman.
From the theatlantic.com
Is it fair to objectify Urban like this without giving due props to his music?
From the ocregister.com
Apart from undermining her language, Petruchio also uses language to objectify her.
From the en.wikipedia.org
What is new is the distance we now have from other people, this tendency to objectify them.
From the thenewstribune.com
She has challenged ads before, usually because they objectify women.
From the jsonline.com
It breaks my heart that women feel the need to objectify themselves.
From the blog.beliefnet.com
And, yet, I am still stunned to see printed words that diminish, that label, that objectify.
From the charlotteobserver.com
You can objectify and measure a person's knowledge simply by testing.
From the economist.com
They are narcissistic, self indulgent, selfish, and they objectify the people in their lives.
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More examples
  • Exteriorize: make external or objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our thoughts"
  • Depersonalize: make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women"
  • (objectification) the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing
  • Objectified is a feature-length documentary film examining the role of everyday objects, and the people who design them, in our daily lives. The film is directed by Gary Hustwit, who was also responsible for the film Helvetica.
  • To make something (such as an abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses; to treat as something objectively real; to treat as a mere object and deny the dignity of
  • (objectified) Treated as an object
  • (OBJECTIFICATION) the practice of degrading things, events, and processes to the status of insensate or inanimate objects, as by the use of impersonal or mechanistic labels, such as TARGET, ZONE OF FIRE, BUSTING CAPS, ROCK 'n' ROLL, HOSE, MAD MINUTE, COLLATERAL DAMAGE, TWEP. ...
  • (Objectification) The reduction of any human being to nothing but a useful, function-serving stereotype in the eyes of the beholder. ...
  • (Objectification) a figure of speech where the poet treats an abstract thing or object as if it were a place. Edmund Spenser's House of Holiness in the first book of the Faerie Queene is an example.