subjective

Meaning

Adjective

  • Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, not upon observation or 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.
  • Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
  • Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action.

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