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objective
adjective
Based on evidence and fair judgment rather than personal preference.
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The competition needed objective criteria for scoring the entries.
The objective record included how long each volunteer took to locate a specified title, while the subjective comments described how comfortable or attractive the layouts felt.
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objectivitynoun
Judgment guided by evidence rather than personal feelings or interests.
Anonymizing the entries helped protect the judges' objectivity.
The reviewers protected their objectivity by comparing the contents with the same checklist used for a plain prototype from another designer.
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