objectivist

[uhb-jek-tiv-ist]

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.

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.

Example Sentences

For many artists after 1945, the objectivist, photographic rationalism advocated by Benjamin is the only truly moral art after Nazism.

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As University of Pennsylvania psychologist Geoffrey P. Goodwin once put it, people who hold an objectivist view tend to respond in a more “closed” fashion.

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A fan of the “objectivist” novelist Ayn Rand, he showed little interest in journalism or the causes of the day.

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In one of them, participants were led to think about morality in either relativist or objectivist terms.

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It showcases her morbid sensibility and her talent for writing lyrics that are as taut and imagistic as an objectivist poem.

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