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Meaning of OBJECTIVITY

Pronunciation:  `âbjek'tivitee

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 Definition: [n]  judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices
 
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 Synonyms: objectiveness
 
 See Also: judgement, judgment, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ob`jec*tiv"i*ty\, n. [Cf.F. objectivit['e].]
The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character
of the object or of the objective.
      The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested
      objectivity have disappeared [in the life of the
      Greeks].                                 --M. Arnold.
 
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