subjective
- existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- pertaining to or characteristic of an individual; personal; individual: a subjective evaluation.
- placing excessive emphasis on one's own moods, attitudes, opinions, etc.; unduly egocentric.
- Philosophy. relating to or of the nature of an object as it is known in the mind as distinct from a thing in itself.
- relating to properties or specific conditions of the mind as distinguished from general or universal experience.
- pertaining to the subject or substance in which attributes inhere; essential.
- Grammar.
- pertaining to or constituting the subject of a sentence.
- (in English and certain other languages) noting a case specialized for that use, as He in He hit the ball.
- similar to such a case in meaning.Compare nominative.
- Obsolete. characteristic of a political subject; submissive.
Origin of subjective
Synonyms for subjective
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biased, intuitive, personal, abstract, illusory, instinctive, idiosyncratic, fanciful, individual, introspective, introverted, prejudiced, nonobjective, nonrepresentative, unobjectiveExamples from the Web for subjective
Contemporary Examples of subjective
The whole goal is to create an effective experience of fear, which is subjective.
Unless you can find good criticism, which is hard to do, because you get too subjective.
Al Pacino Does What He Wants to Do: 'The Humbling,' Scorsese, and That 'Scarface' RemakeAlex Suskind
September 9, 2014
The subjective and unverifiable nature of pain is one of the most challenging aspects of managing it.
These results, of course, are subjective and totally unscientific.
“The subject area in question is subjective and ambiguous,” he wrote.
Historical Examples of subjective
This was the subjective which corresponded to the objective 'All is flux.'
TheaetetusPlato
There are three subjective principles of morals,—sympathy, benevolence, self-love.
PhilebusPlato
No one saw that this objective was really a subjective, and involved the subjectivity of all knowledge.
TimaeusPlato
But the ideas themselves are not subjective, and therefore are not within our ken.'
ParmenidesPlato
This it is not; it has an objective existence, but no subjective.
Essays, Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
subjective
- belonging to, proceeding from, or relating to the mind of the thinking subject and not the nature of the object being considered
- of, relating to, or emanating from a person's emotions, prejudices, etcsubjective views
- relating to the inherent nature of a person or thing; essential
- existing only as perceived and not as a thing in itself
- med (of a symptom, condition, etc) experienced only by the patient and incapable of being recognized or studied by anyone else
- grammar denoting a case of nouns and pronouns, esp in languages having only two cases, that identifies the subject of a finite verb and (in formal use in English) is selected for predicate complements, as in It is ISee also nominative (def. 1)
- grammar
- the subjective case
- a subjective word or speech element
Word Origin and History for subjective
mid-15c., "pertaining to a political subject" (now obsolete), from Late Latin subjectivus, from subjectus (see subject (n.)). Meaning "existing in the mind" (mind="the thinking subject") is from 1707; thus, "personal idiosyncratic" (1767). Related: Subjectively.
subjective
(səb-jĕk′tĭv)- Of, relating to, or designating a symptom or condition perceived by the patient and not by the examiner.
- Existing only in the mind; illusory.