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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Subjective  \Sub*jec"tive\,  a.  [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)  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  subjectiveness 
  n  :  judgment  based  on  individual  personal  impressions  and 
  feelings  and  opinions  rather  than  external  facts  [syn:  {subjectivity}] 




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