objective
They emphasized the importance of scientific objectivity.
She kept her distance to maintain her objectivity.
Some have questioned the objectivity of his own investigation into the matter.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unbiased or impartial
balanced
disinterest
disinterested
disinterestedly
disinterestedness
equitable
equitably
equity
impartial
impartiality
impartially
neutral
neutrally
non-aligned
non-alignment
non-intervention
objective
unbiased
unprejudiced

objectivity | American Dictionary

objectivity
noun[ U ]
us/ˌɑb·dʒekˈtɪv·ɪ·t̬i, -dʒɪk-/
the state or quality of being objective and fair:
The newspaper has a reputation for objectivity and fairness.

objectivity | Business English

objectivity
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌɒbdʒekˈtɪvəti/us
the quality of being able to make a decision or judgment in a fair way that is not influenced by personal feelings or beliefs:
He questioned his manager's objectivity.
An auditor must always give the appearance of objectivity and impartiality.

Examples of objectivity

objectivity
The reasonable person standard enjoys a certain sort of objectivity, insofar as it protects people from each other.
If that is supposed to show the unique objectivity of utilitarianism, it fails by simply begging the question.
This concerns its fundamental orientation towards objectivity, truth, language, meaning and agency.
The twentieth century was hard on faith in classical objectivity, and in several domains at once.
Written culture encouraged the visual sense, the eye, which promotes distance, differentiation, and ultimately objectivity.
However, they seek to maintain objectivity to the science, and hence other broader-based methods are viewed as being un-scientific.
Some will regard this as noble objectivity while others will no doubt regard it as scientific cowardice.
There were two simultaneous fronts, that of objectivity and that of autonomy (protecting medical science from the pressures exerted by patient associations).
The paper and discussion on public examinations again raise issues about their objectivity, and give many grounds for caution against reading too much into them.
But it replaced democracy with objectivity, promising that assessments of rationality would be based on universal laws rather than individual opinion.
In other words, art requires subjectivity and leaves purported objectivity to science.
For if objectivity expressed the tension between particularity and universality, it could be transposed to the languages of social thought and political economy.
Authority to write concluding narratives is bestowed upon experts, often anonymous ones, with the implication of objectivity and detachment.
Like all transcriptions, therefore, its apparent objectivity masks a subjective element.
But if you think of economics as a science, its lack of objectivity will merely irritate.
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