subjective
adjective
Simple meaning
Resulting from or about personal mindsets or experience, that comes from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
səbˈdʒɛktɪv
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Definition
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adjective
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.
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.
philosophypsychology
Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
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.)
As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
Lacking in reality or substance.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B2 · Upper Intermediate
- Frequency
- Moderately Common
- Typical Use
- Neutral / general English
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This meaning: 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.
Used this way, subjective is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- No strong connotation
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use subjective
- “A subjective judgment.”adjective
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Related Words
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Sense: formed or as in opinions
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