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a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 1 Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external Bodies which produceth light or colour..? the Faculty of Sight is fitted to receive that impression or objectiveness, and that objectiveness fitted and accomodate to that Faculty.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Confessions Enquiring Spirit (1840) vii. 93 No man..can recognize his own inward experiences in such writings, and not find an objectiveness, a confirming and assuring outwardness, and all the main characters of reality, reflected therefrom on the spirit.

1846 N. Amer. Rev. July 90 All these writers have, more or less, that depth, daring, vitality, comprehension, objectiveness.

1881 J. Le Conte Sight 13 In smell, there is an equal commingling of subjectiveness and objectiveness.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 4/2 All of us may at first miss the aloofness, the objectiveness (as foreigners call it) of the earlier volumes.

1954 W. Stevens Notes on Moonlight in Coll. Poems 531 This warm, wide, weatherless quietude Is active with a power, an inherent life, In spite of the mere objectiveness of things, Like a cloud-cap in the corner of a looking-glass.

1991 R. Kee Crowd Is Not Company 72 People developed a greater objectiveness than they had ever done while they were living in it [sc. the environment].