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sub⋅jec⋅tive
[suh
b-jek-tiv]
–adjective
| 1. | existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective ). |
| 2. | pertaining to or characteristic of an individual; personal; individual: a subjective evaluation. |
| 3. | placing excessive emphasis on one's own moods, attitudes, opinions, etc.; unduly egocentric. |
| 4. | Philosophy. relating to or of the nature of an object as it is known in the mind as distinct from a thing in itself. |
| 5. | relating to properties or specific conditions of the mind as distinguished from general or universal experience. |
| 6. | pertaining to the subject or substance in which attributes inhere; essential. |
| 7. | Grammar.
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| 8. | Obsolete. characteristic of a political subject; submissive. |
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Subjective
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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Language Translation for : subjective
Spanish:
subjetivo,
German:
subjektiv,
Japanese:
主観的な
Main Entry: sub·jec·tive
Pronunciation: (")s&b-'jek-tiv
Function: adjective
1 a : relating to or determined by the mind as thesubject of experience <subjective reality> b : characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind c : relating toor being experience or knowledge as conditioned by personal mental characteristics or states
2 a : arising from conditions within the brain or sense organs and not directly causedby external stimuli <subjective sensations> b : arising out of or identified by means of one's perception of one's own states and processes and not observable by anexaminer subjective symptom of disease>
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subjective sub·jec·tive (səb-jěk'tĭv)
adj.
- Of, relating to, or designating a symptom or condition perceived by the patient and not by the examiner.
- Existing only in the mind; illusory.
sub·jec'tive·ly adv.
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