Objectify

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Objectify \Ob*jec"ti*fy\, v. t. [Object + -fy.]
     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. --J. D. Morell.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  objectify
       v 1: make external or objective, or give reality to; "language
            externalizes our thoughts" [syn: {exteriorize}, {exteriorise},
             {externalize}, {externalise}]
       2: make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers
          depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography
          objectifies women" [syn: {depersonalize}, {depersonalise}]
          [ant: {personalize}, {personalize}]
       [also: {objectified}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "objectify":
     actualize, call to mind, call up, conjure up, envisage, envision,
     exteriorize, externalize, extrapolate, image, incarnate, just see,
     manifest, materialize, personalize, personify, picture, project,
     realize, represent, see, substantiate, summon up, vision,
     visualize