'Subjective' definitions:
Definition of 'subjective'
From: WordNet
adjective
Taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias; "a subjective judgment" [ant: nonsubjective, objective]
adjective
Definition of 'Subjective'
From: GCIDE
- Subjective \Sub*jec"tive\, a. [L. subjectivus: cf. F. subjectif.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to a subject. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: See Objective. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster] -- {Sub*jec"tive*ly}, adv. -- {Sub*jec"tive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'subjective'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- biased,
- cerebral,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- deep-seated,
- egocentric,
- egoistic,
- endopsychic,
- esoteric,
- idiosyncratic,
- immanent,
- implanted,
- implicit,
- inalienable,
- individual,
- indwelling,
- infixed,
- ingoing,
- ingrained,
- inherent,
- inner,
- inner-directed,
- intellectual,
- intelligent,
- internal,
- intrinsic,
- introversive,
- introvert,
- introverted,
- inward,
- inwrought,
- irreducible,
- mental,
- noetic,
- nominative,
- nonobjective,
- noological,
- personal,
- phrenic,
- prejudiced,
- private,
- psychic,
- psychologic,
- rational,
- reasoning,
- resident,
- secret,
- self-serving,
- selfish,
- spiritual,
- thinking,
- unalienable,
- unchallengeable,
- unquestionable
Words containing 'Subjective'
- Subject,
- Subjected,
- Subjecting,
- Subjection,
- Subjectively,
- Subjectiveness,
- Subjectivity,
- Subjectness,
- subject to,
- subject subject topredicate,
- Subjective color,
- Subjective sensation,
- To be at home on any subject,
- drop the subject,
- liege subject,
- short subject,
- subject area,
- subject case,
- subject dependent,
- subject field,
- subject matter,
- Subject-matter