specularize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make specular or reflective.
verb
To view voyeuristically; to objectify as an object to be looked at.
Example Sentences
- "Unlike most of the producing portion of the range, these ores and near-ores were subjected to mountain-building processes subsequent to their formation. These processes tend to specularize, or harden, the hematite."
- "Rising to a perspective that would dominate the totality, to the vantage point of the greatest power, he thus cuts himself off from the bedrock, from his empirical relationship with the matrix that he claims to survey to specularize and to speculate."
- "Both specularize, for condemnation, the same types of domestic behaviors: illegitimate sexual relationships and atypical domestic power economies."
- "The possession performances also dramatize the social fact of making fabric today, and specularize the threat to male laborers posed by female laborers in a market place now characterized by high unemployment and the increasing feminization of the manufacturing sectors in general and the textiles industries in particular."
- "Lee likewise refused to specularize herself in the bodily act of preaching but sought instead, much like Nancy Prince was later to do in her travels abroad, to deflect the gaze of her reading public away from her body."
- "This temptation to specularize Canada in terms of its visibly exotic people must be avoided, largely because what this does is allow white power centres to continue to function, invisibly."
Etymology
From specular + -ize.