objective

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
objective/əbˈʤektɪv/
adjective
  • 1 not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
  • 2 not dependent on the mind for existence; actual.
  • 3 Grammar relating to or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns used for the object of a transitive verb or a preposition.
noun
  • 1 a goal or aim.
  • 2 the lens in a telescope or microscope nearest to the object observed.
– derivatives
objectively adverb,
objectiveness noun,
objectivity noun,
objectivization (or objectivisation) noun,
objectivize (or objectivise) verb.
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