objectizev.
/ˈɒbdʒᵻktʌɪz/, /ˈɒbdʒɛktʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈɑbdʒəkˌtaɪz/ transitive. To make into an object; to objectify. Usually reflexive.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > objectivity > objectify [verb (transitive)]
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objectivize1825
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objectivatea1860
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1882) xii. 134 The intelligence in the one tends to objectize itself, and in the other to know itself in the object.
1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 43 193 Man objectises himself as ‘the human mind’.
1890 New Eng. Mag. Mar. 92/1 He is himself the Chautauqua movement. In it he has simply objectized his own experience of needs and methods.
1956 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 16 529 Sartre is surely mistaken in analyzing the source of my shame at being caught out in an unworthy performance by the look of another. It is the other's objectizing me, he says, that makes me ashamed.
2001 Techn. Communication (Nexis) 1 May 189 The paradigm shift intensifies. Information is further ‘objectized’ based on intensive research and design to meet your user needs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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