to objectivize
- verb
- /əbˈdʒɛktɪvaɪz/
- Offensive
:
objetivar
- During the therapy session, the psychologist encouraged her to objectivize her thoughts to gain a clearer perspective on her situation.
Examples
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While it might initially appear that the effect of these dramatizations is to objectivize the description, allowing readers to observe and judge the scene for themselves, evidence against such an assumption is the fact that the present-tense passages often blend with present-tense interior monologue.
Academic text (1992) -
Sonia, the outspoken narrator of The Heart of the Country and perhaps Weldon's most interesting narrator, has been told by her psychiatrist to objectivize herself, to "third-personalize" herself (17, 29).
Fiction book (1993) -
To understand her emotions better, she decided to objectivize her feelings by writing them down as if they were separate from herself.
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In order to analyze the situation effectively, he learned to objectivize his biases and view the events as a detached observer.
Synonyms
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To treat someone as a thing, ignoring their feelings and rights
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7.5
Treat a person or thing as an object and remove personal qualities
To make communication feel less personal by removing names or feelings
Antonyms
How Objectifying
- Offensive
- Formal
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9.9
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7.0
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2.6
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3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Objectivize comes from the common word object ('a thing') plus the verb ending -ize ('make'), so it literally means 'make into a thing'. So, to objectivize a feeling or idea is to treat it as an outside thing you can study or measure.