SUBJECTIVE

immanent, subjective

(adjective) of a mental act performed entirely within the mind; “a cognition is an immanent act of mind”

subjective

(adjective) taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias; “a subjective judgment”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

subjective (comparative more subjective, superlative most subjective)

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.

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.)

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.

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.

(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.)

Antonyms

• objective

Source: Wiktionary

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Sub*jec"tive, a. Etym: [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)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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