Specularize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To make specular or reflective.
"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."
- 2 To make visible; to elucidate, bring to light, or put on display.
"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."
- 3 To make visual; to transform into or represent as visible image.
"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."
- 4 To view voyeuristically; to objectify as an object to be looked at.
"Yet the overwhelming force of the drive to specularize is manifested by the fact that the second impulse is not concretized through the representation of 'ugly' or even 'unattractive' women."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From specular + -ize.
More for "specularize"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.