objectivize

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verb

To objectify.

Scrabble 34

Meanings

verbobjectivize (third-person singular simple present objectivizes, present participle objectivizing, simple past and past participle objectivized)

present singular third person objectivizes · participle present objectivizing · participle past objectivized · past objectivized

  1. transitiveTo objectify.
    1 more example

    Our emphasis at this point is on the use of abusive sex in sexual relations as a selling technique. Of course we're not interested in seeing women objectivized in [non-violent] sexual ways for purposes of selling anything, but the immediate protest is to get rid of the violence...The images [on album covers] are part of an environment that trivializes brutality against women.

    1976 December 25, Julia London, quotee, “Boycotting Records”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 2

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APA

objectivize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/objectivize

MLA

“objectivize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/objectivize. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “objectivize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/objectivize.

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