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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
objectively
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
judge sth objectively (=by looking at the facts)
▪ His behaviour, judged objectively by what he has done, is dishonest.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
judge
▪ The accused was not dishonest, judged objectively as well as subjectively.
▪ Others commented that the subjective experience of patients was outside the range of what could be recorded and judged objectively.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Try to look at your situation objectively.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But if the two wars differed objectively, the perception of their similarity was a reality.
▪ He has made better wines, and some of the wines in this group were objectively superior.
▪ Our task is to weigh the evidence objectively and impartially.
▪ The behaviour of humans, like the behaviour of matter, can be objectively measured.
▪ The manager objectively describes the person's performance but says nothing further.
▪ The Tzannetakis administration left state broadcasting free to report objectively.
▪ They wanted to believe that it was fundamentally fair, ruled objectively by the clock.
▪ We shall see them more objectively for having studied the others.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Objectively

Objectively \Ob*jec"tive*ly\, adv. In the manner or state of an object; as, a determinate idea objectively in the mind.

Wiktionary
objectively

adv. In an impartial, objective manner.

WordNet
objectively

adv. with objectivity; "we must look at the facts objectively" [ant: subjectively]

Usage examples of "objectively".

Downstairs the whistle blew, and simultaneously the guard bugler began to blow Fatigue Call in the quad, and he could even listen to the call objectively.

Standing up so abruptly that her chair fell over, she marched across the street and put on her mourning dress and hat for her next objectively scientific epidemiological interview.

From this attack you suffered a psychosomatic wound which manifested objectively in an open wound, but, Mr.

I knew that I had to consider the whole matter very carefully and objectively, lest I should ever have occasion to put it all on the record for the benefit of future generations of psychotropic geneticists, but it was difficult looking back on the Teresa situation with calm objectivity, and even harder to contemplate writing it all down one day in careful scientific language.

Ridge decided objectively, even without such adornments, Quintel of the House of the Gliding Fallon would dominate any crowd.

Part of that greatness was due to his capacity to examine reality objectively, unswayed by self-esteem and personal grandiosity.

The tension between Dasein as objectively trained outside investigator and Dasein as would-be Santarogan convert provides a philosophical story line to complement the solution of the Jaspers mystery.

It marshals a vast amount of scientific evidence, from physics to biology, and offers extensive arguments, all geared to objectively proving the holistic nature of the universe.

Dragged from one bloody firefight to another by their Imperial minders, they did their best to cover everything as objectively as possible.

Objectively it only demands what the worst of the appeasers want, subjectively it is of a kind to irritate the possible friends of India in this country.

Objectively she was pleased that her voice didn't quaver as she supported Lars's testimony on each count, managing to publicly absolve him from felonious assault as he was, in fact, acting even when he abducted her in her best interests, contractually and personally.

If two people not communicating with each other analogously translate an unknown text, one tends to think that they have truly got to its "invariants," that what they have obtained is objectively inherent in the text and does not merely reflect their personal preconceptions.

The practical course of action for us, as religious men, would therefore, it seems to me, not be simply to turn our backs upon the ascetic impulse, as most of us to-day turn them, but rather to discover some outlet for it of which the fruits in the way of privation and hardship might be objectively useful.

So I fell back upon the discipline of the Wise Women and ordered myself to look upon him objectively as they would have done.

Objectively, he recognized that he came from a time where human development, introduced species, and global warming had impoverished the biosphere.