To objectify someone is to treat them as an object rather than as a human being. If your teacher thinks children should be seen and not heard, you might say he objectifies kids.
To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective.
Verb
make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women"
Verb
make external or objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our thoughts"
v. t.
To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the
character of an object; to render objective.
Objectify
To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective.
Usage Examples
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
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