subjective

To be based on personal perception and judgement. E.g., my subjective opinion of cooked cabage is that it's disgusting. Others may disagree without invalidating my opinion.

Male: he
Female: she
Neutral: it

See also possessive, objective

Sub*jec"tive (?), a. [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.

⇒ 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

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.

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