Category:Subjective

Sub*jec"tive, a. Etym: [l. subjectivus: cf. F. subjectif.]

1. Of or pertaining to a subject.

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.

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.

3. (lit. & art)

Defn: modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer Or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective Writer.

Syn. -- see objective. 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. -- sub*jec"tive*ly, adv. -- sub*jec"tive*ness, n.