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object world

object world noun: the world of external objects as distinct from a person perceiving them, especially considered as differing from person to person.

Noun

object world (plural object worlds)

  1. The world of external objects as distinct from a person perceiving them, especially considered as differing from person to person.
    • Love and hate, male and female, lobster salad and champagne: this is Byron's object-world in genial rolling flux.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
    • Through this frightening developmental view, the infant has to contend with an extremely polarized idea about life that sets the tone of his beginning interactions with the external object world.2008, Charles R Wang, Profound States of Despair, page 41

Forms of object world

pluralobject worlds
alternative formobject-world

Questions about object world

What does object world mean?
Object world means the world of external objects as distinct from a person perceiving them, especially considered as differing from person to person.
What part of speech is object world?
Object world is a noun.
What is the plural of object world?
The plural of object world is object worlds.

Words near object world in the dictionary

  1. object sexuality
  2. object show
  3. object shows
  4. object space
  5. object spaces
  6. object world
  7. object worlds
  8. object-based
  9. object-based language
  10. object-based languages
  11. object-based programming

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