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

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.

From Scientific American • Nov. 25, 2020

Scott, that in 2015 Slate published its own rebuttal, though it’s ultimately done little to stop viewers from examining the sequel for objectivist inclinations.

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 Powys, John Cowper