1The action of degrading someone to the status of a mere object.
‘the objectification of women in popular entertainment’
‘The girls also voice concern about the objectification of women.’
‘Maybe they despise the objectification of the female form.’
‘They complain about sexism, recognize the objectification of women's bodies, and worry about the impact media images and messages might be having on younger girls.’
‘The objectification of the female form continues to be viewed by most feminists as necessarily disempowering.’
‘His notes and letters from this period attest to his growing concern about the objectification of art and the ensuing deterioration of artistic experience.’
‘Far from passively accepting objectification as a second-rate climber because of her sex, she conceived her strong feminine gender identity as an asset.’
‘Male dominance is based on sexual objectification.’
‘I'm of the opinion that the objectification of all people is equally bad.’
‘Many said they considered such cliché images to be harmful objectification.’
‘Now we only have to pick up any magazine to see the objectification of men.’
2The expression of something abstract in a concrete form.
‘the objectification of images may be astonishingly vivid in dreams’
‘the church says that we are the visible objectifications of sin’
‘The objectification of the hero is an integral aspect of the action genre.’
‘The themes of separation and helplessness are probably objectifications of his own grief over the loss of his wife.’
‘The soul altar is an objectification of the unseen soul.’
‘The objectification of nature in science and technology looks like mastery of nature but in fact it only demonstrates our impotence in the face of nature.’
‘The gurus are objectifications of the teaching and guiding principle as it exists within each of us.’
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