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objectivity

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ob·jec·tiv·i·ty  (bjk-tv-t)
n.
1. The state or quality of being objective.
2. External or material reality.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.objectivity - judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices
sound judgement, sound judgment, perspicacity, judgement, judgment - the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

objectivity
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objectivity [ˌɒbdʒɪkˈtɪvɪtɪ] Nobjetividad f
objectivity [ˌɒbdʒɛkˈtɪvəti] nobjectivité f
object lesson n
It was an object lesson in good manners → C'était une démonstration de bonnes manières.
an object lesson in how to do sth → une démonstration de la façon de faire qch
objectivity
objectivity [ˌɒbdʒɛkˈtɪvɪtɪ] n (see adj) → obiettività, oggettività


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Zarathustra abjures all those who would fain turn an IMPERSONAL eye upon nature and contemplate her phenomena with that pure objectivity to which the scientific idealists of to-day would so much like to attain.
Every psychical phenomenon is characterized by what the scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional (also the mental) inexistence of an object, and what we, although with not quite unambiguous expressions, would call relation to a content, direction towards an object (which is not here to be understood as a reality), or immanent objectivity.
 
 
 
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