subjective

UK /səbˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/ US /səbˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/
adj 5noun 2

Definitions

adj

1

Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.

2

Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)

3

Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.

4

Lacking in reality or substance.

5

As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.

noun

1

The subjective case.

2

A noun or pronoun in the subjective case.

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