objectivism

[ uhb-jek-tuh-viz-uhm ]

noun

1. a tendency to lay stress on the objective or external elements of cognition.
2. the tendency, as of a writer, to deal with things external to the mind rather than with thoughts or feelings.
3. a doctrine characterized by this tendency.

objectivism

/ əbˈdʒɛktɪˌvɪzəm /

noun

1. the tendency to stress what is objective
2. philosophy
   1. the meta-ethical doctrine that there are certain moral truths that are independent of the attitudes of any individuals
   2. the philosophical doctrine that reality is objective, and that sense data correspond with it

Derived Forms

• obˌjectivˈistic, adjective
• obˈjectivist, nounadjective
• obˌjectivˈistically, adverb

Other Words From

• ob·jectiv·ist noun adjective
• ob·jecti·vistic adjective
• nonob·jecti·vistic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of objectivism¹

First recorded in 1850–55; objective + -ism

Example Sentences

In the abstract, these harsh truths steer the soul perilously close to selfishness or, worse, Objectivism.

From The Daily Beast

They are lower than any pragmatists, and what they hold against Objectivism is morality.

From The Daily Beast

Any objectivity about the founder of Objectivism is impossible.

From The Daily Beast

There are also undeniable hints of Objectivism in fashions that celebrated the profligacy of the 1980s and of the pre-bust 2000s.

From The Daily Beast

Religious objectivism has two passives, two modes in which God is thought.

From Project Gutenberg

Seen at different angles, it is now dualism, now objectivism, now agnosticism.

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A purely mechanical procedure is the inevitable, the natural and necessary method of a pure objectivism.

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Objectivism in its absolutist and abstract forms assumes a standard—nature, essence, law—independent of process.

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On the other hand, the objectivism of his point of view brought a new element into my too concentrated habit of thought.

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