facialize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To see as or cause to be seen as facial, or as having face-like features. (Compare e.g. anthropomorphize.)
verb
To give a facial (personal beauty treatment) to.
Example Sentences
- "Palestinians, Arabs were facialized, given the face of Saddam Hussein, […]"
- "Likewise, this trend in the public sphere to put "faces" on social problems has the paradoxical effect of making the faces generic and not individual: thus the facializing gesture that promotes identification across the spaces of alterity is, in effect, an equivocal challenge to shift the political and cultural boundaries of what will count politically as human."
- "[…] a Shell official handed a representative from each organization a gigantic symbolic check amid the flash of cameras, and they appeared as grateful recipients of Shell's outsized generosity. This image was reproduced in the publicity sent to people who were removed from the political grounds in Dock Sud and helped facialize the company in benevolent terms to people far away from Argentina, […]"
- "Collaging a woman's face on top of the original page offers Mutu the possibility to facialize the medical text."
- "The process of facializing the forest, of structuring it around the rhetorical figure of prosopopoesis — from the Greek prosopon, "face," and poiein, "to make" — […]"
- "Second, it enables us to see landscape as facial, that is, to naturalize the face or facialize nature."
Etymology
From facial + -ize.