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objective

Syllabification: (ob·jec·tive)
Pronunciation: /əbˈjektiv/
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Definition of objective

adjective

  • 1(of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts:historians try to be objective and impartialContrasted with subjective.
  • not dependent on the mind for existence; actual:a matter of objective fact
  • 2 [attributive] Grammar of, relating to, or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns used as the object of a transitive verb or a preposition.

noun

  • 1a thing aimed at or sought; a goal:the system has achieved its objective
  • 2 (the objective) Grammar the objective case.
  • 3 (also objective lens) the lens in a telescope or microscope nearest to the object observed.

Derivatives

objectively

adverb

objectiveness

noun

objectivization

noun

objectivize

Pronunciation: /-ˌvīz/
verb

Origin:

early 17th century: from medieval Latin objectivus, from objectum (see object)

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