Dictionary

facialize en · VERB

Etymology

From facial + -ize.

Meanings

1. (rare) To put a face to; to give a face.
   • Palestinians, Arabs were facialized, given the face of Saddam Hussein, […] 1992, Orientalism and cultural differences, page 30:
   • […] 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, […] 2012, Elana Shever, Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina, →ISBN, page 176:
   • Collaging a woman's face on top of the original page offers Mutu the possibility to facialize the medical text. 2013, Alessandra Raengo, On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value, →ISBN:
   • 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. 1996, Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies, →ISBN, page 435:
2. (rare) To see as or cause to be seen as facial, or as having face-like features. (Compare e.g. anthropomorphize.)
   • Second, it enables us to see landscape as facial, that is, to naturalize the face or facialize nature. 2013, Seung-hoon Jeong, Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media, →ISBN, page 168:
   • The process of facializing the forest, of structuring it around the rhetorical figure of prosopopoesis — from the Greek prosopon, "face," and poiein, "to make" — […] 2008, Stuart Kane, “The Green Man and the Facial Machine”, in Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern, page 43:
3. (rare) To give a facial (sex act) to.
   • 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. 2011, Steve Coney, Gardening With Napalm, →ISBN, page 102:
   • Sweet teen analized hard doggystyle and facialized 2006 September 27, cha...@hushmail.com, “Hardcore indian sex, Brittney skye facial cum, Monica sweetheart enjoys slurping”, in alt.sex.nfs (Usenet):
4. (rare) 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. 1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 114:

Forms

Relateds

faciality · facialness