noun
- a tendency to lay stress on the objective or external elements of cognition.
- the tendency, as of a writer, to deal with things external to the mind rather than with thoughts or feelings.
- a doctrine characterized by this tendency.
noun
- the tendency to stress what is objective
- philosophy
- the meta-ethical doctrine that there are certain moral truths that are independent of the attitudes of any individuals
- the philosophical doctrine that reality is objective, and that sense data correspond with it
n.1854 in philosophical sense, “the doctrine that knowledge is based on objective reality,” from objective (adj.) + -ism.