Verb
To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective.
Source: Webster's dictionaryShe has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better! John Green (author)
The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling. Susanne Langer
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express. Marianne Moore
Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems. Roger Ebert
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. Ruth Hubbard
Men don't have to assess women, that's why we can objectify them so quickly. On some level, we don't really give a fuck. A man can see a woman with a heavy cold and all he'd think would be "I would rattle that fucking phlegm loose." Frankie Boyle