English Online Dictionary. What means subjective? What does subjective mean?
English
Etymology
From subject + -ive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səbˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/, /sʌbˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/
- Rhymes: -ɛktɪv
- Hyphenation: sub‧ject‧ive
Adjective
subjective (comparative more subjective, superlative most subjective)
- Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
- 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.)
- Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
- Lacking in reality or substance.
- As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
- (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
- (linguistics, grammar) Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
Antonyms
- objective
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
subjective (plural subjectives)
- (grammar) The subjective case.
- (grammar) A noun or pronoun in the subjective case.
Further reading
- "subjective" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 308.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syb.ʒɛk.tiv/
Adjective
subjective
- feminine singular of subjectif