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Webster 1913 Edition
Subjective
Sub-jec′tive
,Adj.
[L.
subjectivus
: cf. F. subjectif
.] 1.
Of or pertaining to a subject.
2.
Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one’s own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states.
☞ In the philosophy of the mind, subjective denotes what is to be referred to the thinking subject, the ego; objective, what belongs to the object of thought, the non-ego. See , 2.
Objective
, Adj.
Sir W. Hamilton.
3.
(Lit. & Art)
Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist;
as, a
. subjective
drama or painting; a subjective
writer
Syn. – See
Objective
. Subjective sensation
(Physiol.)
, one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes excite the nervous apparatus of the sense organs, as when a person imagines he sees figures which have no objective reality.
Sub-jec′tive-ly
, adv.
Sub-jec′tive-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Subjective
SUBJECTIVE
,Adj.
Certainty--is distinguished into objective and subjective; objective, is when the proposition is certainly true of itself; and subjective, is when we are certain of the truth of it.
Definition 2024
subjective
subjective
English
Adjective
subjective (comparative more subjective, superlative most subjective)
- Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
- Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, not upon observation or reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
- Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
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- Lacking in reality or substance.
- As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
- (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
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(linguistics, grammar) Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-032047-3
- The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.
- 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-032047-3
Antonyms
Translations
pertaining to subjects
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based upon subjective feelings or intuition
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pertaining to personal mindsets or experience
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lacking in reality or substance
as used by Carl Jung
experienced by a person mentally