objectify

Other forms of objectify

past tense or participle

objectified

present participle

objectifying·

third person

objectifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about objectify

What does objectify mean?

objectify means "make external or objective, or give reality to". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in objectify?

objectify has 4 syllables: ob-jec-ti-fy. The stress falls on "jec".

What is another word for objectify?

Close synonyms include exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, depersonalize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is objectify a common word?

objectify is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.