objectiveobjective2 ●○○ AWL adjective 
It’s hard to give an objective opinion about your own children. Scientists need to be objective when doing research.purely/totally/completely objective the importance of a completely objective, independent press2formal existing outside the mind as something real, not only as an idea: The world has an objective reality.—objectivity /ˌɒbdʒekˈtɪvəti $ ˌɑːb-/ noun [uncountable]
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- objective reality
- I could use an objective opinion on this problem.
- It's always difficult to be objective about such a sensitive issue as abortion.
- Originally, I went to the counselor because I needed an objective opinion about the whole situation.
- Sometimes it's hard to be objective when the situation gets emotional.
- the objective case
- The selection board, which decides on promotions, should be strictly objective.
- There are no objective signs of injury on the body.
- Both relatively objective and relatively subjective criteria present other problems.
- But how does this allow a study of style that is objective and exact?
- But it does little to show how the subjective and objective aspects of colour are related.
- I have decided that I should try to be objective instead, and reflect for a moment.
- Is there such a thing as objective reporting?
- The emphasis is on objective analysis of evidence rather than on a subjective impression of any single witness.
- The interests of the shareholders become an objective standard to govern the actions of the directors.
Longman Language Activatorable to be fair because you are not involved in a situation
not influenced by personal opinions or emotions, especially when you have to make a decision about something: · I could use an objective opinion on this problem.· It's always difficult to be objective about such a sensitive issue as abortion.· The selection board, which decides on promotions, should be strictly objective.
able to make fair judgements or decisions about a situation because you do not support anyone who is involved in it: · Historians try to be impartial, but they cannot free themselves entirely from their own opinions.· Our representative attended the peace negotiations as an impartial observer.
not supporting any side in a disagreement, argument, war etc: · Switzerland remained neutral during World War II.· Civil servants are supposed to be politically neutral.
especially spoken to deliberately not support either side in an argument: · Teachers shouldn't take sides when students argue.not take sides in: · It is important that social workers don't take sides in family disputes.
not influenced by personal opinions or a tendency to support a particular person or side, and therefore able to make a fair judgment: · This murder case has had so much media publicity that it will be difficult to find an unbiased jury.· Women need accurate, unbiased information about their options when they become pregnant.
able to be fair in considering a particular situation because you are not involved in it and do not expect to gain any personal advantage from it: · Find a financial consultant who can offer completely independent and disinterested advice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY It’s hard to give an objective opinion about your own children. the importance of a completely objective, independent pressCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES It is their declared intention to increase taxes. an analysis of how different countries are attempting to fulfill their political goals The scheme does not meet its objectives. Their primary objective is to make money. Complete disarmament was the ultimate goal of the conference. Our ultimate objective is to have as many female members of parliament as there are male.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
It’s hard to give an objective opinion about your own children. the importance of a completely objective, independent press (=the things you hope to achieve)· These aims and objectives are set out in chapters two and three.
(=that is based on facts, not on feelings or beliefs)· The test results will provide an objective assessment of how much you have improved.
(=that is based on fact and not opinion)· The label of 'carer' was defined by the objective criterion of someone who spends more than seven hours looking after someone.
It is their declared intention to increase taxes. an analysis of how different countries are attempting to fulfill their political goals (=one that is not influenced by your opinions or feelings)· The test provides an objective measurement of the student’s listening skills.
The scheme does not meet its objectives.· How can we best achieve our policy objectives?
Their primary objective is to make money.· She was known to be ruthless in pursuing her goals.
Complete disarmament was the ultimate goal of the conference. Our ultimate objective is to have as many female members of parliament as there are male.· Any comparison between these is dependent upon the further externalization of these values as objective forms.· When you fill out your diary, step outside yourself and be as objective as possible.· These inner phantasies are projected into the external reality which is then re-incorporated as objective reality.· At the meeting, keep your feedback as objective as possible by being specific.· Throughout its search for a solution, Pearl had been determined to be as objective as possible.· Is there such a thing as objective reporting?· It is as objective as the object of which it is a perspectival appearance.· No one who can be as objective about her own thinking processes as you are could be otherwise.
· Nor is it a completely objective evaluation.· But since none of us can be completely objective we have a responsibility to say what our biases are.· It is crucial therefore that these guidelines are followed in all cases: a completely objective approach adopted.
· Opposition Members believe that there should be more objective planning criteria.· Such persons will be much more objective and conscientious critics and that is exactly what you are looking for at this time.· Finally, sociological accounts should be more objective, systematic and potentially verifiable.· There must be more objective standards than that, if shamans as a class are not to expose themselves as downright quacks.· Please write down two or more objective measurements.· It will also give you a more objective idea of how an employer sees you when reading your application form or letter.· Red cell volume would be a more objective indicator of placental transfusion.· In the last few years a more objective method, based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised.
· Even in the most objective environments, the interpretation process may not be easy.· Alvin had given her several names, Lathem told Truitte, but had suggested that he would be the most objective.· Having been almost born there on skis, she is not the most objective judge.
· Obviously, purely objective criteria such as the patient's age or the particular illness can not be justified or relied upon.· Clearly, in Satnam and kindred cases, the purely objective stance which Caldwell has been interpreted to represent has been rejected.
· Critical doubt depends on a myth, the idea that human knowledge is totally objective and neutral.· A good organiser is totally objective, even downright hard-hearted in choosing venue, style, speakers and programme.· The Profitboss is totally objective in making people decisions in business.
NOUN· Even a brief moment of objective analysis reveals that this can not be so.· The Congressional Research Service is an independent agency that offers members of Congress objective analysis of issues and legislation.· The emphasis is on objective analysis of evidence rather than on a subjective impression of any single witness.· And this is what the Davenports wanted-an objective analysis of why their son was having so much difficulty being mature and self-sufficient.· It was established to promote independent, objective analysis and public discussion of open economies and relations among them.· In a world filled with guilt and bitterness, there is no room for self-criticism or objective analysis.
· It also hampers any objective assessment of the value of treatment in these patients.· The implication is that further scientific research will eliminate residual uncertainties, allowing for a more objective assessment of harm.· It uses all sorts of quantitative and qualitative data, and allows all types of subjective and objective assessments.· Seeking a second opinion is strongly advised to obtain an objective assessment.· Listing, in theory, is an objective assessment of architectural or historical importance which does not necessarily prevent demolition.· This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality.
· Obviously, purely objective criteria such as the patient's age or the particular illness can not be justified or relied upon.· In clinical trials of Crohn's disease, objective criteria of gut inflammation are desirable, particularly if quantifiable.· No two patients were quite alike and objective criteria were scanty.· How far these variations affected the ability of tenants to sublet is difficult to determine in the absence of objective criteria.
· Structural features of perception, he suggests, might be accessible to objective description even though qualitative aspects are not.· What if language is not a neutral system capable of objective description and analysis?
· Nor is it a completely objective evaluation.· It demands a kind of distance from the observer, an objective evaluation of its virtues and failings.· The extent to which local advisers can undertake an objective evaluation of a school already familiar to them is one consideration.
· These quotations constitute the objective evidence for the existence and currency of the words, meanings, or phrases which they illustrate.· Our last bit of objective evidence, such as it is, concerns those prints on the scullery window.· In patients disabled by severe dysmotility syndromes, however, they sometimes provide the only objective evidence of abnormality.· For the most part, objective evidence to support these claims, in the form of scientific trials, is still lacking.· But the objective evidence is here on his side.· There is objective evidence that something odd did happen near Roswell in 1947.
· But it is not the objective facts that are abnormal, it is the circumstances in which they are observed.· Mostly it was the objective fact that Communism is a rotten system.· The police case does not contain just raw objective facts.· It insists that all research is totally impartial to give readers objective facts about products and services.· The owners' subjective opinions are borne out by objective facts.· Supposing the physician can find no tissue damage or that there is an inappropriate relation between objective fact and subjective complaint.· With the former, conformity to objective fact is the standard of reliability.· There is no such thing as an objective fact.
· Class origins are less important than the objective function of serving the interests of the ruling class.· We first observe that T1 is uniquely optimal for the objective function because we would have.· Similarly, there is an objective function which has T2 as its optimal tableau.· In general, we will examine problems having p linear objective functions,, which we wish to maximise subject to linear constraints.· However, the objective function increases if we increase any variable.· To accommodate multiple objectives, we will extend the simplex tableau by including an additional objective row for each objective function.· This involves specifying a goal or target value for the objective function.· The up-pseudo-cost is where is the objective function value of the up-problem.
· In other respects, such as outcome, we have unambiguously objective information.· Lacking objective information on outcomes, they make their decisions largely on political considerations.· Moreover, objective information about the world outside is sometimes obtained in this state.
· To employ Popper's terminology, it is to move from the world of subjective knowledge to the world of objective knowledge.· Research is an attempt to produce objective knowledge, independent of personal viewpoint.
· But what are these objective laws?· This implied that it was possible to construct a rational theory based on these objective laws.
· First the results from the judgment tasks are reported and relationships between these judgments and a variety of objective measures are explored.· Personality trait ratings will be replaced with more objective measures of performance focusing on job-related outcomes and behaviors.· Our objective measures of light intensity would be discarded if they universally gave answers that contradicted our subjective experiences.· But demographers and social scientists also use more objective measures.· The authors used a rise in faecal fat as an objective measure for toxicity.· A variety of more objective measures have traditionally been used as well by teachers.· Perhaps the most surprising of these five failures to find an objective measure of pain is the last.· However, public perception of risk is often at odds with the objective measures used by engineers.
· The assessment of needs is not, therefore, a matter of objective measurement.· Observations of behaviour based on objective measurement will make it possible to produce statements of cause and effect.· For this reason objective measurement is not possible and the exactitude of the natural sciences can not be duplicated.· Please write down two or more objective measurements.· The method is particularly valuable as an objective measurement to assess the response to therapy.
· Psychology also often shuts out female subjects from objective method, and leaves them to more qualitative approaches.· It is the only educational institution in the world that teaches aesthetic appreciation primarily through an objective method of investigation.· In the last few years a more objective method, based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised.· Their attempts to provide more objective methods do not challenge the gender bias involved in psychological notions of objectivity.
· The slightly later and opposing tradition is that of the lexicographer as the objective observer and recorder of language.· The last thing I wanted was to relapse into the role of a patronizing objective observer.· More objective observers regarded the contest as too close to call.· Scientists like to think of themselves as above the fray, or aside the fray, or objective observers of the fray.· Now Gergen is back at U. S. News as a supposedly objective observer.
· What makes the idea of an objective order intelligible?· The possibility of an objective order Both sides in the dispute see the issue of criteria as being of key importance.· Yet none of this is quite sufficient to clarify the concept of an objective order.
· These inner phantasies are projected into the external reality which is then re-incorporated as objective reality.· The subjective experience of individual actors is brought together with the objective reality of public issues.· Did this energy have some objective reality or was it merely a way of looking at known processes from a different viewpoint?· Thus, what is called objective reality is never fully known.· No objective reality means no certainties and that means agnosticism.· Because they describe an objective reality, descriptive core beliefs are simply valid or invalid.· Essentially, we were exploring subjective experiences of work and pointing to the fact that these experiences become objective reality.· It seems clear that, long before phenomenal consciousness of any fort we can recognise existed, there was an objective reality.
· Both are also related to the measures of objective risk.· These descriptions were analysed to calculate a measure of the objective risk of accident at a junction.· Instead the first measure of objective risk, total accident numbers, was chosen as the number for subjects to estimate.
· Unfortunately, not all health professionals take the objective standards of their medical training into their public and political comment.· They provided an objective standard by which we could judge ourselves.· There must be more objective standards than that, if shamans as a class are not to expose themselves as downright quacks.
· If you enjoy games, why not compile a list of objective test questions to use in Trivial Pursuits?· This is an objective test which does not depend upon either the skill or the resources of the particular occupier.· What we need is an objective test that we can apply from the outside to distinguish whether an organism has free will.· But me only objective test of whether an organism has tree will is whether its behavior can be predicted.· The ultimate objective test of free will would seem to be: Can one predict the behavior of the organism?· Instead, the courts will subject the clause to the objective test of reasonableness.· An objective test would be determined by a court.
· We are concerned with three main questions in this work: Do moral judgements possess objective truth or falsehood?· However, it is better to distinguish the issue of objective truth from that of rationality.· Still we must believe in love, just as we must believe in free will and objective truth.
· I can offer an objective view, an informed opinion.· He or she will bring an objective view to team meetings.· They suggest that sociological perspectives are shaped more by historical circumstances than by objective views of the reality of social life.· Tess had a researcher's mind and an objective view.· Antonio was a star dancer and he could not take an objective view of the whole.· Draw conclusions to construct an objective view of the past.· An objective view Choreographers wish to express themselves through dance because a story, theme or music has inspired them.
· In fact a number of sociologists have argued that there is no objective way of measuring the functional importance of positions.· There is certainly no objective way to compute or scientifically analyze a resolution of the disagreements.
· We can not say that there is a separate, solid, objective world which different creatures perceive in different ways.
WORD FAMILYnounobjectivityadjectiveobjectiveadverbobjectively
1based on facts, or making a decision that is based on facts rather than on your feelings or beliefs OPP subjectiveobjective assessment/measurement/description etc It’s hard to give an objective opinion about your own children. Scientists need to be objective when doing research.purely/totally/completely objective the importance of a completely objective, independent press2formal existing outside the mind as something real, not only as an idea: The world has an objective reality.—objectivity /ˌɒbdʒekˈtɪvəti $ ˌɑːb-/ noun [uncountable]