objectify

Verb

objectify (third-person singular simple present objectifies, present participle objectifying, simple past and past participle objectified)

1. (ambitransitive) To make (something, such as an abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses.
   • It was the unknown, objectified at last, in concrete flesh and blood, bending over him and reaching down to seize hold of him.1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   objectivize, reify, thingify

2. (transitive) To treat (something) as objectively real.
   • The mystic objectifies a rich feeling in the pit of the stomach into a cosmology.1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus

   Synonyms:

   objectivize, reify, thingify

3. (transitive) To treat (someone) as a mere (usually sexual) object; to sexually dehumanize (someone).
   • Near-synonyms: demean, fetishize
   • 1994 "Book review: Fire With Fire", backlash.comhttp://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1996/3-mar96/page23.html
     She talks about the fact that women objectify men just as much as men objectify women, and she even admits her culpability in doing so by talking about how sometimes she wishes she had a...

   Synonyms:

   demean, fetishize