0 the fact of being based on facts and not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings:
1 the state or quality of being objective and fair:
The newspaper has a reputation for objectivity and fairness.
2 the quality of being able to make a decision or judgment in a fair way that is not influenced by personal feelings or beliefs:
An auditor must always give the appearance of objectivity and impartiality.
He questioned his manager's objectivity.
But if you think of economics as a science, its lack of objectivity will merely irritate.
Like all transcriptions, therefore, its apparent objectivity masks a subjective element.
Authority to write concluding narratives is bestowed upon experts, often anonymous ones, with the implication of objectivity and detachment.
For if objectivity expressed the tension between particularity and universality, it could be transposed to the languages of social thought and political economy.
In other words, art requires subjectivity and leaves purported objectivity to science.
But it replaced democracy with objectivity, promising that assessments of rationality would be based on universal laws rather than individual opinion.
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.
There were two simultaneous fronts, that of objectivity and that of autonomy (protecting medical science from the pressures exerted by patient associations).
