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.
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. Sir W. Hamilton.
3. (Lit. & Art)
Defn: 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.
SUBJECTIVISM
Sub*jec"tiv*ism, n. (Metaph.)
Defn: Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.
SUBJECTIVIST
Sub*jec"tiv*ist, n. (Metaph.)
Defn: One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.
SUBJECTIVITY
Sub`jec*tiv"i*ty, n.