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  1. a. Of or pertaining to a subject.
  2. a. 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.
  3. a. Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.
  4. adj. taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
  5. adj. of a mental act performed entirely within the mind
  6. 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. 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) 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.
  7. Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writeror an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjectivewriter.
  8. j:100 a. taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias