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objectification

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


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Though their obsessions with moisturizers and eyebrow grooming seem pretty girlie to someone of my generation, looksmaxxing is rooted in objectification.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026

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

“There were moments and lines,” Kim says, “that startled me in how prescient Katherine had been about Asian American identity, objectification, desire and how all these things often get tangled up.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

So then by this inner objectification the subject does not at all depart from itself.

From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

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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