object world

noun

The world of external objects as distinct from a person perceiving them, especially considered as differing from person to person.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounobject world (plural object worlds)

plural object worlds · alternative object-world

  1. The world of external objects as distinct from a person perceiving them, especially considered as differing from person to person.First known use 19th c.

    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
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    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
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