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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Subjective \Sub*jec"tive\, a. [L. subjectivus: cf. F.
     subjectif.]
     1. Of or pertaining to a subject.
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     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.
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     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.
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     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.
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     Syn: See {Objective}.
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     {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.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Sub*jec"tive*ly}, adv. --
        {Sub*jec"tive*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  subjective
       adj 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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