objectivist

American  

[uhb-jek-tiv-ist] / əbˈdʒɛk tɪv ɪst /

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.

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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.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2021

In the other study, participants who had been exposed to relativist ideas were less likely to donate to charity than those who had been exposed to objectivist ones.

From Scientific American • Oct. 16, 2019

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 book infuriated both Noam Chomsky, the MIT linguist, and Ayn Rand, the objectivist author.

From The Verge • Jan. 24, 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 Powys, John Cowper