1. To treat a person or other agent as an object while disregarding relevant agency or subjectivity.
2. To give an idea or experience an objective, external or concrete form.
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Words that belong together
- objectify a person
- objectify participants
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The critique argued that the display objectified the participants.
The procedure risked objectifying people by recording only their assigned function.
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Word forms
- Base
- objectify
- Past tense
- objectified
- Past participle
- objectified
- Present participle
- objectifying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- objectify
- Present continuous
- am/is/are objectifying
- Present perfect
- have/has objectified
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been objectifying
- Past
- objectified
- Past continuous
- was/were objectifying
- Past perfect
- had objectified
- Past perfect continuous
- had been objectifying
- Future
- will objectify
- Future continuous
- will be objectifying
- Future perfect
- will have objectified
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been objectifying
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: objectify; objectifies; objectified; objectified; objectifying Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: objectifies.
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