1. present participle of objectivize; the act of treating something abstract or subjective as if it were an object or concrete thing
Usage: formal; often used in philosophy, psychology, and social sciences

Examples

• The researcher is objectivizing abstract concepts like love and fear by measuring them through behavioral data.
• Philosophers debate the risks of objectivizing human experience into purely scientific terms.
• By objectivizing emotions, the study attempted to make them quantifiable and testable.
• The artist criticized the tendency toward objectivizing art by reducing it to market value alone.
• Psychologists are objectivizing mental states through neuroimaging technology.
• The process of objectivizing subjective feelings helps researchers conduct controlled experiments.