Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The absence of objective reality: illusiveness; the character of arising within the mind, as, for example, the sensation of a color does.
- noun The private, arbitrary, and limited element of self; that which is peculiar to an individual mind: as, the subjectivity of Byron or Shelley.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun singular only The state of being
subjective . - noun A subjective thought or idea.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts
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Examples
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But arguments about music of the sort Kivy advances are intended to be taken literally, since if we settle for the listener's experience of various emotions (or anything else you'd care to call them), an irretrievable element of subjectivity is being granted, the kind of subjectivity that makes "modern" atonal music possible in the first place.
Music 2007
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The older, often perfectly good word "subjectivity" is decidedly multivalent.
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In so far as these judgements of content and purpose are dependent on judgements of import however, a subjectivity is introduced that can generate errors of a specific type, where the reader introduces an entirely spurious significance that is the product of an unreasonable response — an Import Artifice.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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A novel like The Voyeur leaves us with the conviction that subjectivity is all.
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And, when you add history to it, subjectivity is a real problem.
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Some wallow in subjectivity, some aim for objectivity, but we all have preconceptions.
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A novel like The Voyeur leaves us with the conviction that subjectivity is all.
May 2010 2010
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A novel like The Voyeur leaves us with the conviction that subjectivity is all.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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In so far as these judgements of content and purpose are dependent on judgements of import however, a subjectivity is introduced that can generate errors of a specific type, where the reader introduces an entirely spurious significance that is the product of an unreasonable response — an Import Artifice.
Arguing With Geeks 11 Hal Duncan 2009
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A novel like The Voyeur leaves us with the conviction that subjectivity is all.
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