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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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... species is more or less explained in naming it. Literary species, M. Brunetiere maintains, do exist. They develop and are transformed into others in a way more or less analogous to the evolution of natural types. It remains to see on what basis an objective judgment can be given. Although M. Brunetiere seems to make classification the disposal of a work in the hierarchy of species, and judgment the disposal of it in relation to others of its own species, he has never sharply distinguished between them; so that we shall not ...

— The Psychology of Beauty • Ethel D. Puffer

... in which no one sees the slightest tincture of sorrow,—the same indescribable and truth concealing darkness seems to spread itself (but in reality the felicity of Emancipation is unstained by darkness).[822] Like again to what occurs in dreamless slumber, in Emancipation also, subjective and objective existences (from Consciousness to objects of the senses, all included), which have their origin in one's acts, are all discarded. In some, that are overwhelmed by Avidya, these exist, firmly grafted with them. Unto others who have transcended ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown

... language abounded in metaphor; it is that the Aryan mother-tongue abounded in metaphor because the men and women who spoke it were myth-makers. And they were myth-makers because they had nothing but the phenomena of human will and effort with which to compare objective phenomena. Therefore it was that they spoke of the sun as an unwearied voyager or a matchless archer, and classified inanimate no less than animate objects as masculine and feminine. Max Muller's way of stating his ...

— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske

... to say about the tone of Langeais, which, though I have left it to the end of my sketch, formed the objective point of the first excursion I made from Tours. Langeais is rather dark and grey; it is perhaps the simplest and most severe of all the castles of the Loire. I don't know why I should have gone to see it before any other, unless it be because I remembered ...

— A Little Tour in France • Henry James

... the third, and very successful, time, Brennan was helpless. James had planned well. He had learned from his first two efforts. The first escape was a blind run toward a predictable objective; all right, that was a danger to be avoided. His second was entirely successful—until James created his own area of danger. ...

— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith

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