SUBJECTIVELY

subjectively

(adverb) in a subjective way; “you cannot look at these facts subjectively”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

subjectively (comparative more subjectively, superlative most subjectively)

In a subjective manner.

Antonyms

• objectively

Source: Wiktionary


SUBJECTIVE

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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