subjective

UK/səbˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/US/səbˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/

adjectiveB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,945 of 15,258leans written

Subjective means shaped by personal feeling rather than fact. A subjective judgement, purely subjective, subjective experience.

It is set against objective, and the pair does a great deal of work in argument — often more than it can carry, since many judgements are neither purely one nor the other. In philosophy, subjective experience means what something is like from the inside, which is the hard problem of consciousness. Note subjectivity; and that in grammar the subjective case is another matter entirely.

Definitions of subjective

1adjectivesubjectiveShaped by personal feeling rather than fact.B2+
“Taste in music is subjective, so there's no point arguing about it.”
synonyms: personal, individual

subjective is a quality of personal view.

Where it comes from

Latin subiectivus comes from subiectus, thrown under — sub plus iacere, to throw. Subject, object and project come from the same throwing.

Latin
subiectīvus
English, today
subjective

From Latin subiectīvus, equivalent to subject + -ive.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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subjective in the wild

While traditional establishing shots, wide shots, medium shots, and close-ups offer an objective perspective of the scene, a POV shot offers a subjective point of view.
Point-of-view shot
Feeling may, for instance, refer to the conscious subjective experience of emotions.
Feeling
The subjective character of experience, also referred to as subjective experience, is the first-person aspect of conscious experience.
Subjective character of experience
As a result, subjective experience is now regarded as both a philosophical concept and an important subject of empirical investigation.
Subjective character of experience
SWB includes two different subjective measures of well-being that are based on different definitions of happiness.
Subjective well-being

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