- ob|jec´tive|ness
- ob|jec|tive «uhb JEHK tihv», noun, adjective.–n.1. something aimed at: »
My objective this summer will be learning to play tennis better.
SYNONYM(S): goal, object, aim.2. something real and observable.4. lens or lenses nearest to the thing seen through a telescope or microscope; object glass: »The instrument is provided with a rotating nosepiece to which are permanently attached three objectives of different magnifications (Sears and Zemansky).
5. the goal or target of a military operation: »Paris was the real objective of the invading German army.
–adj.1. being the object of endeavor.2. existing outside the mind as an actual object and not merely in the mind as an idea; real. Buildings and actions are objective; ideas are subjective.3. about outward things, not about the thoughts and feelings of the speaker, writer, or painter; giving facts as they are without a bias toward either side; impersonal: »an objective analysis of a poem or painting. An “objective test” is often true and false or multiple choice. A scientist must be objective in his experiments. The policeman gave an objective report of the accident.
4. Grammar. a) showing the direct object of a verb or the object of a preposition. In “John hit me,” me is in the objective case. b) having to do with or being in this case.5. perceptible to other persons as well as to the patient: »an objective symptom.
6. a) (of a work of art) representing or resembling natural objects; not abstract. b) (in perspective) that is, or belongs to, the object of which the delineation is required: »an objective point.
╂[< Medieval Latin objectivus having to do with things as they are presented to the mind < objectum; see etym. under object (Cf. ↑object)]–ob|jec´tive|ly, adverb.–ob|jec´tive|ness, noun.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
