object world

English

Alternative forms
  • object-world

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. [from 19th c.]
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      Love and hate, male and female, lobster salad and champagne: this is Byron's object-world in genial rolling flux.
    • 2008, Charles R Wang, Profound States of Despair, page 41:
      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.
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