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Objectify

verb
1.
Make external or objective, or give reality to.  Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize.
2.
Make impersonal or present as an object.  Synonyms: depersonalise, depersonalize.  "Pornography objectifies women"  Antonyms: personalise, personalize.






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"Objectify" Quotes from Famous Books



... illusion through which we make our conscious states share in the reciprocal externality of outer things, because this distinctness and solidification enables us to give them fixed names in spite of their instability, and distinct names in spite of their interpenetration. Above all it enables us to objectify them, to throw them out into the current of social life. But just for this very reason we are in danger of living our lives superficially and of covering up our real self. We are generally content with what is but a shadow of the real self, projected into space. ...
— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn

... evolutionary plans and laws of the macrocosms, materializes through functions of the microcosm, imparting to each, with its routine of failure and success, its daily objectivity. The inner or passive dream mind may perceive the subjective types or antitypes many days before they objectify through the microcosm. Their meaning is often wrapt in symbols, but sometimes the actual as it occurs in objective life is conveyed. Our own thought images which have passed before the objective mind may be perceived by the clever mind reader, but those antitypes which are ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller



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