objectification
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Though their obsessions with moisturizers and eyebrow grooming seem pretty girlie to someone of my generation, looksmaxxing is rooted in objectification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
“Companion” is a rough draft of a movie about objectification, a lazy first pass that hopes its audience will mistake the insinuation of progressivism for the actual philosophy.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025
The film is described as having had a profound effect on the representation of black people’s experiences of marginalisation and objectification.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024
Grammatically speaking, I’ve contemplated the power of the closeup, both an objectification and a privilege.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
Human beauty was explained above as the fullest objectification of will at the highest grade at which it is knowable.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
In this contemplation the mind is filled with pure intellectual forms, the ``Platonic Ideas'' as he calls them, which are objectifications of the will at a certain grade of completeness of representation.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg