What is the meaning of objective?

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noun

  • The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable. )
    • usage: "the sole object of her trip was to see her children"
  • The lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed.

adjective

  • Undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena.
    • usage: "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence"
  • Serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes.
    • usage: "objective case"; "accusative endings"
  • Emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation.
    • usage: "objective art"
  • Belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events.
    • usage: "objective benefits"; "an objective example"; "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"
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