• noun:   the lens or system of lenses nearest the object being viewed
• noun:   the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
• adjective:   undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena

  Example: "An objective appraisal"

• adjective:   emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation

  Example: "Objective art"

• adjective:   serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes

  Example: "Objective case"

• adjective:   belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events

  Example: "There is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"

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