Word Meanings - SUBJECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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 , one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes
Additional info about word: SUBJECTIVE
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 , 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. (more info) 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBJECTIVE)
- Immanent
- Inherent
- innate
- subjective
- indwelling
- internal
- intrinsic
- congenital
- ingrained
- natural
- implicit
- Metaphysical
- Mental
- intellectual
- abstract
- Ideal
- conceptional
- relational
- notional
- abstruse
- psychical
Related words: (words related to SUBJECTIVE)
- INTRINSICAL
1. Intrinsic. 2. Intimate; closely familiar. Sir H. Wotton. - INDWELLING
Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South. - NATURALIST
1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell. - INGRAIN
1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. -- - NATURAL STEEL
Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore. - IDEALISTIC
Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories. - ABSTRUSELY
In an abstruse manner. - IMPLICITNESS
State or quality of being implicit. - INTELLECTUALIST
1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism. - METAPHYSICALLY
In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South. - ABSTRACTION
The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or - IMPLICITY
Implicitness. Cotgrave. - CONCEPTIONAL
Pertaining to conception. - IDEALOGUE
One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. Mrs. Browning. - NATURAL
Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info) - ABSTRACTEDLY
In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind. - NATURALIZE
1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of - INNATE
Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive. There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common - INNATENESS
The quality of being innate. - CONGENITALLY
In a congenital manner. - SUPERNATURALNESS
The quality or state of being supernatural. - THYROIDEAL
Thyroid. - OMENTAL
Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta. - PRETERNATURALITY
Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith. - EXPERIMENTAL
1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion. - ALIMENTALLY
So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne. - INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - PARIPINNATE
Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end. - ELEMENTAL
1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. - PIGMENTAL; PIGMENTARY
Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration , a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues. - ORNAMENTAL
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne. - REGIMENTALS
The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.