EGAVE

subjective

About 14.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective 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.
  2. adjective 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.)
  3. adjective 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.
  4. adjective Lacking in reality or substance.
  5. adjective As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
  6. adjective Mind-dependent.
  7. adjective Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
  8. adjective 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.)

Similar words

personal immanent prejudiced unverifiable unobjective objective autonomous moral substantive intrinsic

Often followed by

and experience or probability symptoms experiences well factors in

Word family

subjectively subjectiveness subjectivenesses subjectives

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