objectivist

American  

[uhb-jek-tiv-ist] / əbˈdʒɛk tɪv ɪst /

adjective

1. Psychology. concerned with those elements of cognition that are external or observable.

2. Philosophy. viewing moral principles as objective or independent of human thought and therefore universal.

3. Philosophy. relating or subscribing to the philosophy of individualism and free-market capitalism as articulated by Ayn Rand.

4. Literature. relating to a 20th-century movement in poetry, influenced by modernism and imagism, that emphasized the poem as a structurally coherent whole and the direct expression of the poet.

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noun

1. Psychology. a psychologist who emphasizes those elements of cognition that are external or observable.

2. Philosophy. a person who views moral principles as objective or independent of human thought and therefore universal.

3. Philosophy. a person who subscribes to the philosophy of individualism and free-market capitalism as articulated by Ayn Rand.

4. Literature. a poet belonging to a 20th-century movement in poetry, influenced by modernism and imagism, that emphasized the poem as a structurally coherent whole and the direct expression of the poet.