Definition of Objective

1. Noun. The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable). "The sole object of her trip was to see her children"

Exact synonyms: Aim, Object, Target
Generic synonyms: End, Goal
Specialized synonyms: Grail, Business, Point, Thing
Derivative terms: Aim, Target

2. Adjective. Undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena. "Objective evidence"
Exact synonyms: Nonsubjective
Similar to: Clinical, Impersonal, Neutral, Verifiable
Derivative terms: Objectiveness, Objectivity
Antonyms: Subjective

3. Noun. The lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed.
Exact synonyms: Object Glass, Object Lens, Objective Lens
Group relationships: Compound Microscope, Optical Telescope
Generic synonyms: Lens, Lens System, Lense

4. Adjective. Serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes. "Accusative endings"
Exact synonyms: Accusative
Category relationships: Grammar
Partainyms: Accusative Case, Objective Case

5. Adjective. Emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation. "Objective art"
Exact synonyms: Documentary
Similar to: Existent, Real
Derivative terms: Documentary, Objectivity

6. Adjective. Belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events. "There is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"
Similar to: Concrete

Definition of Objective

1. a. Of or pertaining to an object.

2. n. The objective case.

Definition of Objective

1. Adjective. of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality ¹

2. Adjective. agreed upon by all parties present (or nearly all); based on consensually observed facts ¹

3. Adjective. not influenced by irrational emotions or prejudices ¹

4. Adjective. (grammar) of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb ¹

5. Noun. A material object that physically exists. ¹

6. Noun. A goal that is striven for. ¹

7. Noun. (grammar) The objective case; a noun or pronoun in that case. ¹

8. Noun. The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Objective

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Objective

1. 1. Perceptible to the external senses. 2. The lens or system of lenses in a microscope (or telescope) that is nearest to the object under examination. Origin: L. Objectivus This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Objective

objection
objectionability
objectionable
objectionableness
objectionably
objectional
objections
objectist
objectists
objectivate
objectivated
objectivates
objectivating
objectivation
objectivations
objective (current term)
objective case
objective cases
objective circle
objective clause
objective correlative
objective correlatives
objective function
objective functions
objective optometer
objective perimetry
objective probability
objective psychology
objective sensation

Literary usage of Objective

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism by Ralph Barton Perry (1912)
"The fag of Post- phrase objective idealism, in the sense in Kantian ideal- ... According to objective idealism, Berkeley's error lay, not in his reduction ..."

2. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Many of the social sciences predominantly objective in their methods. When we turn from the discussion of art and feeling to certain more practical spheres ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"What the psychologists have in mind is the objective scientist's contruction of ... What, then, is the difference between introspective and objective data? ..."

4. Kant's Kritik of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1892)
"derived from experience, and also is not requisite for the possibility thereof, its objective reality can in no way be assured. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"ON SUPPOSED EFFECTS OF STRAIN IN TELESCOPIC objective**. To THE EDITOR OF SCIENCE : In your issue of April 23d (page 656) I notice a criticism by Professor ..."

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