Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being objective.
- noun External or material reality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property or state of being objective, in any sense of that word; externality; external reality; universal validity; absorption in external objects. See
objective , a. - noun In psychology, detachment from oneself; independent existence. See the extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
objective ,just ,unbiased and notinfluenced byemotions orpersonal prejudices - noun The
world as itreally is;reality - noun That which one understands, often, as intellectually, of all and everything, of what is sensed as felt, thereof
- noun That which is perceived to be true to understanding
- noun The object of understanding
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices
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Examples
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In interpretation, because the specific individual horizon of the interpreter is constitutive for that interpretation, the term objectivity refers to the inter-subjective accessibility of the object of interpretation.
Experience, Expression, & Understanding Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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I know, I know: this is most emphatically not how we generally hear the term objectivity bandied about.
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If you cannot say objectively that threatening to blow up the world's economy was an extreme position, then the word "objectivity" is meaningless.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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"That kind of objectivity is really hard for the control freak."
Tame Your Inner Control Freak Lori Murray 2010
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Journalists will always say that they seek "balance" to maintain "objectivity," but in reality "balance" is a poor substitute for careful investigation and presentation of the facts.
Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010
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Journalists will always say that they seek "balance" to maintain "objectivity," but in reality "balance" is a poor substitute for careful investigation and presentation of the facts.
Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010
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The only way to truly guarantee objectivity is to return to the very elements of scientific discovery and that is the element of reproducibility - anyone repeating the same experiment or analysing the same data set should be able to come to exactly the same results and conclusions.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Truth TOPS Bias at TOS Meeting 2009
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Journalists will always say that they seek "balance" to maintain "objectivity," but in reality "balance" is a poor substitute for careful investigation and presentation of the facts.
Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010
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The test of objectivity is whether the story you write fairly presents the relevant sides.
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Journalists will always say that they seek "balance" to maintain "objectivity," but in reality "balance" is a poor substitute for careful investigation and presentation of the facts.
Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010
mollusque commented on the word objectivity
Objectivity is in the eye of the beholder.
November 22, 2007
kewpid commented on the word objectivity
… whereas subjectivity is empirical.
November 22, 2007