Subjectiveness

2 definitions found

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]:

  subjectiveness
       n : judgment based on individual personal impressions and
           feelings and opinions rather than external facts [syn: {subjectivity}]