facialize

verb 4

Definitions

verb

1

To put a face to; to give a face.

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.

2

To see as or cause to be seen as facial, or as having face-like features. (Compare e.g. anthropomorphize.)

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.

3

To give a facial (sex act) to.

Sweet teen analized hard doggystyle and facialized

Yeah, you blew it with America 's sweetheart, but guys like us really only want to deflower, defile, sodomize, and facialize a good-girl sweetheart anyway.

4

To give a facial (personal beauty treatment) to.

[…] a manicure and, if time permits, a pedicure. I'm lying on the elevated table in one of the private rooms waiting for Helga, the skin technician, to facialize me.

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