Made physical or bodily; transformed into or treated as flesh or material substance.
From carnalize (from Latin carnis 'flesh') plus -ed past tense suffix. The verb carnalize emerged in religious and philosophical contexts to describe the conversion of spiritual concepts into physical or fleshly forms.
Medieval theologians used 'carnalize' to describe what happens when people interpret spiritual truths too literally or focus only on bodily desires—the opposite of what they considered enlightened thinking.
Past form of carnalize; carries the dehumanizing history of describing those (esp. women) as reduced to flesh. Appears in colonial and racialized violence rhetoric.
Avoid passive construction; if analyzing historical dehumanization, name it explicitly: 'was dehumanized by reducing to physical form' rather than 'was carnalized.'
["dehumanized","objectified","reduced to physical form"]
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