🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

客体化

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kyakutaika

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Objectification/əbˌdʒɛk.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"メディアにおける女性の客体化が議論されている。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action of degrading someone to the status of a mere object.

    "The feminist critique focuses on the objectification of women in contemporary media."
  2. 2

    The expression of something abstract in a physical, concrete form.

    "Art is often seen as the objectification of inner human emotions and abstract thoughts."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English verb 'objectify', formed by combining 'object' (from Latin 'objectum', a thing put before the mind or sight) with the suffix '-ify' (from Latin '-ificare', to make), alongside the noun-forming suffix '-ation'. The term gained prominent usage in 20th-century philosophy, psychology, and feminist theory to describe the act of treating a person as a mere object.

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