objective
ub-JEK-tivadjMeaning based on facts rather than personal feelings
Memory hook OBJECT-ive: just measure the OBJECT. Dev and Jonah argue about whose fish is bigger, so Ada simply measures each one with a ruler: the answer is objective.
A thermometer gives an objective reading of the temperature.
In context Reviewers argue about whether the movie is good, but its length is an objective fact: it runs exactly two hours and ten minutes.
Similar factual, unbiased, impartial, neutral
Opposite subjective, biased, personal
From Medieval Latin objectivus, from objectum, “a thing put before the mind”: ob- (before) + jacere (to throw).