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objectify 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/əbˈjektəˌfī/,
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objectified, past participle; objectifies, 3rd person singular present; objectifying, present participle; objectified, past tense;
  1. Express (something abstract) in a concrete form
    • - good poetry objectifies feeling
  2. Degrade to the status of a mere object
    • - a deeply sexist attitude that objectifies women
  1. exteriorize: make external or objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our thoughts"
  2. depersonalize: make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women"
  3. (objectification) the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. (objectified) Treated as an object
  7. (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. ...
  8. (Objectification) The reduction of any human being to nothing but a useful, function-serving stereotype in the eyes of the beholder. ...
  9. (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.
  10. (Objectification) when women are socially perceived not as subjects in their own rights, but as objects either akin to beasts of burden, only good to generate money or heirs for their families, or as sexual objects whose bodies can be commercialized.
  11. (objectification) A form of scientific analysis inherent in modernism which purports to subject people to objective scrutiny but typically leads them to being regarded as different and inferior. Often associated with the use of binary categories and exclusion. See binaries, gaze, othering.
  12. (objectification) The positioning of Others as objects for the benefit of the Self see Hegels Master/Slave dialectic.
  13. (Objectified) cultural capital consists of physical objects that are owned, such as scientific instruments or works of art. ...
  14. to place a balloon or other lettering object in a way that causes it to be perceived as a physical object. (See Fig. 12)