3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Subjective \Sub*jec"tive\, adjective [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}, adjective, 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}, adverb -- {Sub*jec"tive*ness}, noun From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: subjective adjective 1: taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias; "a subjective judgment" [ant: {objective}] 2: of a mental act performed entirely within the mind; "a cognition is an immanent act of mind" [syn: {immanent}] [ant: {transeunt}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 55 Moby Thesaurus words for "subjective": 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

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