OBJECTIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does objectivity mean? 

• OBJECTIVITY (noun)
  The noun OBJECTIVITY has 1 sense:

1. judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices

  Familiarity information: OBJECTIVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBJECTIVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

objectiveness; objectivity

Hypernyms ("objectivity" is a kind of...):

judgement; judgment; perspicacity; sound judgement; sound judgment (the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions)

Derivation:

objective (undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena)

 Context examples 

Hard to get the opinion of operators and manufactures, they do not want to give their point of view and refer to their websites, where internal studies are published, so no objectivity guaranteed.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Its focus is on spontaneous movement, concentration, visual and auditory objectivity, controlled self-consciousness, and responsiveness to interpersonal relationships.

(Fleming Method Relaxation, NCI Thesaurus)

A pain rating scale that attempts objectivity by reliance on a person's ability to rate pain on a scale of 0 to 5, 10, or 100, where the lowest number in the scale represents no pain and the highest number represents the worst imaginable pain.

(Numeric Pain Scale, NCI Thesaurus)