Dictionary Entry
objectify
Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ob-jek-tuh-fahy/To treat a person or idea as an object, often in a dehumanizing way, or to express something abstract in a concrete form.
In a Sentence
“The artist tried to objectify complex emotions by painting them as solid, geometric shapes.”
Origin
From "object" + "-ify", ultimately from Latin "objectus" (thrown before).
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