objectificationn.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xlii. 432 This discrimination of self from self,—this objectification,—is the quality which constitutes the essential peculiarity of Cognition.

1876 J. J. Elmendorf Outl. Lect. Hist. Philos. 271 Art is the work of genius, the highest step in the objectification of will, in which the eternal idea is known and repeated.

1888 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) May 362 Beginning his consideration of the fine arts with architecture, whose peculiar end was the objectification of the lower grades of the visibility of the will.

1900 F. H. Stoddard Evol. Eng. Novel 78 These mystic symbols are like the weird sisters in ‘Macbeth’; they are the objectification of mystery.

1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas ii. ii. 123 Thanks to this objectification we find facing us in the natural setting..not natural things merely, but values and practical objects of every kind.

1971 E. B. Ashton tr. K. Jaspers Philos. III. i. 8 Metaphysical objectifications of transcendence.

1989 Jrnl. Musicol. 7 271 Many other papers..tended to address the concerns with objectification and quantification of musical systems typical of the Berlin School and of central European ethnomusicology in general.

1973 Internat. Rev. Sport Sociol. 8 No. 3 –4. 7 While drunk, the players sing obscene songs which involve, as a central theme, the mocking, objectification and defilement of women and homosexuals.

1975 A. Ginsberg in Spontaneous Mind (2001) 295 The lack of recognition of Person, the objectification, reification, depersonalization, mechanicalization of Person.

1977 Lat. Amer. Perspectives 4 192 The sexual objectification of women by the mass media.

1993 Utne Reader Jan. 58/2 ‘I am put off by their culture—all the pictures of naked men advertising sex,’ she says, pointing out that it is the same kind of sexual objectification that has oppressed women for centuries.