[syn: depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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 represent or consider as an
object; to render objective. --J. D. Morell.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
objectify
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "objectify":
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