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1 a: relating to or existing as an object of thought without consideration of independent existence —used chiefly in medieval philosophy b: of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers : having reality independent of the mind <objective reality> <our reveries…are significantly and repeatedly shaped by our transactions with the objective world
— Marvin Reznikoff>
— compare subjective 3a cof a symptom of disease : perceptible to persons other than the affected individual
— compare subjective 4c d: involving or deriving from sense perception or experience with actual objects, conditions, or phenomena <objective awareness> <objective data>2: relating to, characteristic of, or constituting the case of words that follow prepositions or transitive verbs3 a: expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations <objective art> <an objective history of the war> <an objective judgment> bof a test : limited to choices of fixed alternatives and reducing subjective factors to a minimum
— ob·jec·tive·ly adverb
— ob·jec·tive·ness noun
— ob·jec·tiv·i·ty
\ˌäb-ˌjek-ˈti-və-tē, əb-\
noun
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