facialize

facialize

English

Etymology

facial +‎ -ize

Verb

facialize (third-person singular simple present facializes, present participle facializing, simple past and past participle facialized)

1. (rare) To put a face to; to give a face. [20th century]
   • 1992, Orientalism and cultural differences, page 30:

     Palestinians, Arabs were facialized, given the face of Saddam Hussein, […]

   • 1996, Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies, →ISBN, page 435:

     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.

   • 2012, Elana Shever, Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina, →ISBN, page 176:

     […] 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, […]

   • 2013, Alessandra Raengo, On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value, →ISBN:

     Collaging a woman's face on top of the original page offers Mutu the possibility to facialize the medical text.

2. (rare) To see as or cause to be seen as facial, or as having face-like features. (Compare e.g. anthropomorphize.) [20th century]
   • 2008, Stuart Kane, The Green Man and the Facial Machine, in Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern, page 43:

     The process of facializing the forest, of structuring it around the rhetorical figure of prosopopoesis — from the Greek prosopon, "face," and poiein, "to make" — […]

   • 2013, Seung-hoon Jeong, Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media, →ISBN, page 168:

     Second, it enables us to see landscape as facial, that is, to naturalize the face or facialize nature.

3. (rare) To give a facial (sex act) to. [21st century]
   • 2006 September 27, "[e-mail]" (username), Hardcore indian sex, Brittney skye facial cum, Monica sweetheart enjoys slurping, in alt.sex.nfs, Usenet:

     Sweet teen analized hard doggystyle and facialized

   • 2011, Steve Coney, Gardening With Napalm, →ISBN, page 102:

     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. (rare) To give a facial (personal beauty treatment) to. [21st century]
   • 2010, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, →ISBN, page 114:

     […] 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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:facialize.

See also

• faciality
• facialness