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sub⋅jec⋅tive

  [suhb-jek-tiv]
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–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.
a. pertaining to or constituting the subject of a sentence.
b. (in English and certain other languages) noting a case specialized for that use, as He in He hit the ball.
c. similar to such a case in meaning. Compare nominative.
8. Obsolete. characteristic of a political subject; submissive.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME: pertaining to a subject of a ruler < L subjectīvus; see subject, -ive

Related forms:
sub⋅jec⋅tive⋅ly, adverb
sub⋅jec⋅tive⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. mental. 6. substantial, inherent.
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sub·jec·tive   (səb-jěk'tĭv)   
adj.  
    1. Proceeding from or taking place in a person's mind rather than the external world: a subjective decision.
    2. Particular to a given person; personal: subjective experience.
  2. Moodily introspective.
  3. Existing only in the mind; illusory.
  4. Psychology Existing only within the experiencer's mind.
  5. Medicine Of, relating to, or designating a symptom or condition perceived by the patient and not by the examiner.
  6. Expressing or bringing into prominence the individuality of the artist or author.
  7. Grammar Relating to or being the nominative case.
  8. Relating to the real nature of something; essential.
sub·jec'tive·ly adv., sub·jec'tive·ness, sub'jec·tiv'i·ty (sŭb'jěk-tĭv'ĭ-tē) n.
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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
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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> subjective clinical improvement or both —Journal of the American Medical Association>—compare OBJECTIVE 2 —sub·jec·tive·ly adverb
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subjective sub·jec·tive (səb-jěk'tĭv)
adj.

  1. Of, relating to, or designating a symptom or condition perceived by the patient and not by the examiner.
  2. Existing only in the mind; illusory.
sub·jec'tive·ly adv.

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