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

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