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Objective vs Passionated - What's the difference?

objective | passionated |

As an adjective objective

is of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.

As a noun objective

is a material object that physically exists.

As a verb passionated is

past tense of passionate.

objective

English

(Objectivity)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
  • Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
  • Based on observed facts.
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  • (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
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    • Usage notes

    * Said of account, judgment, criteria, person, existence, or observation.

    Antonyms

    * subjective

    Derived terms

    * nonobjective * objective correlative * objectivity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A material object that physically exists.
  • A goal that is striven for.
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    • Objectives' are the stepping stones which guide you to achieving your goals. They must be verifiable in some way, whether that?s statistically – ‘the more I do this, the better I get at it? – or by some other achievable concept such as getting the job or relationship that you want. It?s crucial that your ' objectives lead you logically towards your goal and are quantifiable.
  • (grammar) The objective case; a noun or pronoun in that case.
  • The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    passionated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (passionate)

    • passionate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
  • Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
  • * Prior
    • Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate .
  • (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
  • * 1596 , , II. i. 544:
    • She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
  • * 1599 , , I. ii. 124:
    • Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

    Synonyms

    * (fired with intense feeling) ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid.

    Related terms

    * passion * passive * passivity * patience * patient

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A passionate individual.

    • Verb

    (passionat)
  • (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
  • (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
  • * 1607 , , III. ii. 6:
    • Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.

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