Subjective

Quick meaning: Subjective is an adjective meaning Lacking in reality or substance.

Meaning

Lacking in reality or substance.

More Meanings

1. As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
2. (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
3. (grammar) The subjective case.
4. 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.
5. 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.)
6. 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.
7. (linguistics, grammar) 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.)

Example Sentences

The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.

Word Forms

• subjectives

Synonyms for subjective

Depending on context, synonyms include immanent, personal, prejudiced, unobjective, unverifiable.

Antonyms for subjective

Common opposites include objective, transient, transeunt, nonsubjective.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include personal, immanent, prejudiced, unverifiable, unobjective, objective.

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