subjective

Meanings

Plural: subjectives

Adjective

• taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
  • "a subjective judgment"
• of a mental act performed entirely within the mind

Adj

• 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.
• 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. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)

Noun

• The subjective case.
• A noun or pronoun in the subjective case.

Synonyms

immanent

Antonyms

objective, transeunt

Anagrams of subjective