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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make external or objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our thoughts" [syn: exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify]
2: make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women" [syn: depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify] [ant: individualise, individualize, personalise, personalize]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-fied; -fying) Date: circa 1837 1. to treat as an object or cause to have objective reality 2. to give expression to (as an abstract notion, feeling, or ideal) in a form that can be experienced by others <it is the essence of the fairy tale to objectify differing facets of the child's emotional experience — John Updike> • objectification noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 make objective; embody. 2 present as an object of perception. Derivatives: objectification n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Objectify Ob*jec"ti*fy, v. t. [Object + -fy.] To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective. --J. D. Morell.

Moby Thesaurus

actualize, call to mind, call up, conjure up, envisage, envision, exteriorize, externalize, extrapolate, image, incarnate, just see, manifest, materialize, personalize, personify, picture, project, realize, represent, see, substantiate, summon up, vision, visualize