The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subjective \Sub*jec"tive\, a. [L. subjectivus: cf. F. subjectif.]
Of or pertaining to a subject.
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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.
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(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. [1913 Webster] -- Sub*jec"tive*ly, adv. -- Sub*jec"tive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a subjective manner.
WordNet
adv. in a subjective way; "you cannot look at these facts subjectively" [ant: objectively]
Usage examples of "subjectively".
Its beauty was scarcely sullied, even subjectively, by the telegram which the portier sent after the Marches from the hotel, saying that their missing trunk had not yet been found, and their spirits were as light as the gay little clouds which blew about in the sky, when their train drew out in the sunshine, brilliant on the charming landscape all the way to Carlsbad.
Why is it not subjectively obvious to us that musicality is a perceived feature of speech?
Time in the overworld seemed to run on a different scale and was not even consistent, but something else entirely, so that sometimes a brief conversation would last for hours, and at other times a lengthy journey which, subjectively, seemed to endure for days, would flash by in the blink of an eye.
If so, then at what point had the worldcopying occurred, the subjectively undetectable branching-off from Groundworld, the creation of his present, simulacral consciousness?
In this book I argue that in an analogous way, rigorous inquiry into the nature of consciousness may upset many of the assumptions of scientific materialism, which has erroneously excluded the subjectively experienced mind from the domain of the natural world.
Objectively it only demands what the worst of the appeasers want, subjectively it is of a kind to irritate the possible friends of India in this country.
By isolating the moment from its successions, you confer upon it, subjectively, an absolute value.
It had not been long in objective time since she had left it, by dying, but it had been an eternity subjectively.
Supposing we subject you to some constituent fields, one at a time, and you can evaluate subjectively what each of them feels like.
The fate of an NP-static Dreamtime is to be sent on a one-way trip into the distant future, a long but subjectively rapid journey into the heat-death of the universe -- unless somebody physically reboots the world, consigning its frozen inhabitants to oblivion.
If he did manage to work up a memory reinforcer, it would flush the system all at once, perhaps, and no one could predict what that would feel like subjectively.