objectivity

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objectivity (journalism)

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objectivity (philosophy)

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Etymology

From objective +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒbd͡ʒɛkˈtɪvɪti/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɑbd͡ʒɛkˈtɪvɪti/, [ˌɑbd͡ʒɛkˈtɪvɪɾi]

  • Audio (Canada):

    (file)

• Hyphenation: ob‧jec‧tiv‧i‧ty

Noun

objectivity (countable and uncountable, plural objectivities)

1. The state of being objective, just, unbiased, and not influenced by irrational emotions or personal prejudices.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:objectivity

   maintain objectivity

   sense of objectivity

   The scientist’s objectivity was questioned after the funding controversy.

   Good journalism requires strict objectivity.

2. The world as it really is; reality.

Synonyms

• objectiveness (much less common)

Antonyms

• subjectivity

Derived terms

• multiobjectivity
• nonobjectivity

Translations

The state of being objective

Armenian: օբյեկտիվություն (hy) (ōbyektivutʻyun) Bulgarian: обективност (bg) f (obektivnost) Catalan: objectivitat (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 客觀性 / 客观性 (zh) (kèguānxìng) Dutch: objectiviteit (nl) f, zakelijkheid (nl) f Finnish: objektiivisuus (fi), puolueettomuus (fi) French: objectivité (fr) f German: Objektivität (de) f Greek: αντικειμενικότητα (el) f (antikeimenikótita) Hungarian: objektivitás (hu), tárgyilagosság (hu) Ido: objektaleso (io) Irish: oibiachtúlacht f Japanese: 客観性 (ja) (きゃっかんせい, kyakukansei) Kazakh: объективтік (obektivtık) Khmer: វត្ថុវិស័យភាព (voattʰo vi’say pʰiep) Korean: 객관성(客觀性) (gaekgwanseong) Persian: عینیت (fa) (eyniyat) Polish: obiektywność (pl) f Portuguese: objetividade (pt) f Romanian: obiectivitate (ro) Russian: объекти́вность (ru) f (obʺjektívnostʹ) Spanish: objetividad (es) f Turkish: nesnellik (tr) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

References

• “objectivity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “objectivity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.