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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

object world en · NOUN

Meanings

  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:

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object-world alternative lexicographic
object worlds Number=Plur lexicographic