Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of objectify
nounobjectifying (countable and uncountable, plural objectifyings)
plural objectifyings
- countableuncountableObjectification.
In early consciousness there is, of course, frequent return of a given object which becomes the occasion of a large number of objectifyings which are identical in nature yet do not contain sense of identity.
1895, Hiram Miner Stanley, Studies in the Evolutionary Psychology of Feeling, page 82
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