Meanings
present singular third person objectizes · participle present objectizing · participle past objectized · past objectized
- To turn into, or treat as, an object; to objectify.
[…] an indestructible power with two opposite and counteracting forces, which,[…], we may call the centrifugal and centripetal forces. The intelligence in the one tends to objectize itself, and in the other to know itself in the object.
1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “A Chapter of Requests and Premonitions concerning the Perusal or Omission of the Chapter that Follows”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, page 275
Origin
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