objective

 
Pronunciation: /əbˈdʒɛktɪv/

adjective

  • 1(of a person or their judgement) 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 relating to or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns serving 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: examine with high power objective

Derivatives

objectively

adverb

objectiveness

noun

objectivization

Pronunciation: /əbˌdʒɛktɪvʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
(also objectivisation) noun

objectivize

Pronunciation: /əbˈdʒɛktɪvʌɪz/
(also objectivise) verb

Origin:

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