About The Word Subjective
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What's The Definition Of Subjective?
[adj] (philosophy) of a mental act; occurring entirely within the mind
[adj] taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias; "a subjective judgment" Synonyms | Synonyms for Subjective: immanent | personal | prejudiced | unobjective | unverifiable Related Terms | Find terms related to Subjective: See Also | Subjective In Webster's Dictionary \Sub*jec"tive\, a. [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.
Note: 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 {Objective}, a., 2. --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}, n.
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