Objectivises

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To render a subject matter objective by removing personal biases and presenting it in a factual manner
2. To change a personal perspective into an objective stance that eliminates subjective emotions and biases
3. To convert a viewpoint or subject into a state free from personal feelings and biases

Etymology: "Objectivises" is the third-person singular present form of "objectivise," the British spelling of "objectivize," meaning to make something objective, or to remove personal bias from it. The verb is built from "objective," which comes from medieval Latin "objectivus," an adjective formed from the Latin "objectum," meaning "thing thrown or placed before" the mind. The "-ise" ending is the familiar suffix that turns adjectives and nouns into verbs meaning "to make or become" something, so "objectivise" literally means "to make objective." The key to the word's sense is the older meaning of "objective." In philosophy it once referred to something that exists as an object of thought, as opposed to something existing in the mind alone, and that sense shifted over the centuries until "objective" came to mean free from personal feeling. "Objectivise" follows the same path, turning an idea about what exists in the world into an action performed on judgment itself.