objectivist
Americanadjective
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Psychology. concerned with those elements of cognition that are external or observable.
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Philosophy. viewing moral principles as objective or independent of human thought and therefore universal.
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Philosophy. relating or subscribing to the philosophy of individualism and free-market capitalism as articulated by Ayn Rand.
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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
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Psychology. a psychologist who emphasizes those elements of cognition that are external or observable.
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Philosophy. a person who views moral principles as objective or independent of human thought and therefore universal.
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Philosophy. a person who subscribes to the philosophy of individualism and free-market capitalism as articulated by Ayn Rand.
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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
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For many artists after 1945, the objectivist, photographic rationalism advocated by Benjamin is the only truly moral art after Nazism.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2021
Perhaps it's not just that having objectivist views shapes your interactions with other people; perhaps your interactions with other people can actually shape the degree to which you hold objectivist views.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 25, 2020
Not being a mind reader, I couldn’t tell you what role, if any, the accusations of objectivist thought against Bird—which he seems sensitive to—played in the making of Incredibles 2.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2018
The author, most recently, of the novel “The House of Broken Angels” loves poetry and avoids objectivist fiction: “I run screaming when I see an Ayn Rand book creeping up the alley looking for victims.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2018
The materialist or "objectivist" may be satisfied with such a result, but it is a result which does not answer the question of philosophy, but rather denies that any answer is possible.
From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys
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