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objectification

[uhb-jek-tuh-fi-kay-shuhn] / əbˌdʒɛk tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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"I was 17. I was in a moment of discovery. As women, it's such unfair objectification."

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026

This adoration necessitated objectification, and from the 1970s onward, Updike’s fiction came in for a good deal of feminist scorn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Instead, “Companion” is content with being 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

Grammatically speaking, I’ve contemplated the power of the closeup, both an objectification and a privilege.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

In other words, he effected what may be called an objectification of the literary ideal.

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn

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


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