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səbˈdʒɛk tɪvsub·jec·tive

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. subjectiveadjective

    taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias

    "a subjective judgment"

  2. immanent, subjectiveadjective

    of a mental act performed entirely within the mind

    "a cognition is an immanent act of mind"

Wiktionary

  1. subjectiveadjective

    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.)

  2. subjectiveadjective

    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.

  3. subjectiveadjective

    Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily from external stimuli.

  4. subjectiveadjective

    Lacking in reality or substance.

  5. subjectiveadjective

    As used by Carl Jung the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.

  6. subjectiveadjective

    Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Subjectiveadjective

    Relating not to the object but the subject.

    Etymology: from subject.

    Certainty, according to the schools, is distinguished into objective and subjective: objective is when the proposition is certainly true in itself; and subjective, when we are certain of the truth of it. Isaac Watts.

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  1. subjective

    Subjective refers to ideas, feelings, or perceptions that are based on an individual's personal perspectives, feelings, beliefs, or opinions rather than facts or evidence. It is often influenced by personal biases and is unique to each person.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Subjectiveadjective

    of or pertaining to a subject

  2. Subjectiveadjective

    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

  3. Subjectiveadjective

    modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer

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  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'subjective' in Adjectives Frequency: #946

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of subjective in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of subjective in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of subjective in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Mason:

    Unapproved voice cloning is a slippery slope, as soon as you get into a world where you’re making subjective judgment calls about whether specific cases can be ethical, it won’t be long before anything goes.

  2. Julianne Holt-Lunstad:

    Loneliness is thought to be more of a subjective, distressing feeling, it's often defined as the discrepancy between one's actual and desired level of connection.

  3. Baosteel Group:

    In particular, the charges claiming that Baosteel stole commercial secrets from U.S. Steel is rootless speculation and subjective assumption, and could even be described as an absurd statement, baosteel has not and will never steal to obtain technology.

  4. Charlie Whiting:

    The stewards accepted Nico’s explanation and looked at the data and felt that he had slowed down, but then the question is did he slow down enough, what’s enough? So if you can’t set a time, then that’s that, it removes all that subjective discussion.

  5. Mark Kelly:

    I don't really have any surprises, a lot of the research we do is imagery based. Just this morning, I was doing some ultrasound exams on my eyes, on my heart and a lot of that data is stuff that will be analyzed by scientists and researchers and it will take time well after I'm back before we have results. But from a kind of a subjective perspective, I kind of knew what to expect going into this because I've flown a long-duration flight before, so you know there's been little effects on my vision which I had last time. But overall, nothing alarming.

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