In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
subjectively
(adverb) in a subjective way; “you cannot look at these facts subjectively”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
subjectively (comparative more subjectively, superlative most subjectively)
In a subjective manner.
• objectively
Source: Wiktionary
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
12 December 2024
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In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.