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Objective   /əbdʒˈɛktɪv/   Listen
Objective

noun
1.
The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable).  Synonyms: aim, object, target.
2.
The lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed.  Synonyms: object glass, object lens, objective lens.
adjective
1.
Undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena.  Synonym: nonsubjective.  "Objective evidence"  Antonym: subjective.
2.
Serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes.  Synonym: accusative.  "Accusative endings"
3.
Emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation.  Synonym: documentary.
4.
Belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events.  "An objective example" , "There is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"



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"Objective" Quotes from Famous Books



... far as the value of the tests themselves, as indications of the condition of color vision in the dancer is concerned, I have no apology for this lack of measurement, but I do regret my inability to give that accurate objective statement of brightness values which would enable another experimenter with ease and certainty to repeat my tests. The nearest approach that it is possible for me to make to such an objective measurement is a statement of the ...
— The Dancing Mouse - A Study in Animal Behavior • Robert M. Yerkes
... influence of this disappointment could not fail to be felt by all—even by the old professor. They were without an ounce of food and had no means of continuing their journey, even had they possessed an objective point. ...
— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood
... seems to proceed in his table of goods, from the more abstract to the less abstract; from the subjective to the objective; until at the lower end of the scale we fairly descend into the region of human action and feeling. To him, the greater the abstraction the greater the truth, and he is always tending to see abstractions ...
— Philebus • Plato
... objective point is five or six blocks I walk and I think on the way. I probably get in two to four miles of walking every day, which my friends would save by riding in the street cars ...
— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter
... who for the moment enjoy some popularity. The poetry before us is distinct and clear, and accurate in its imagery; but the imagery is rarely or never exhibited for description's sake alone; it is rarely or never exclusively objective; that is to say, put forward as a spectacle, a picture on which the mind's eye is to rest and terminate. You may if your sight is short, or your imagination cold, regard the imagery in itself and go no farther; ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson


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