subjective

adj
/səbˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/

Etymology

From subject + -ive.

  1. derived from subiectus
  2. derived from suget
  3. derived from subget
  4. suffixed as subjective — “subject + ive

Definitions

  1. Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon…

    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

    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…

    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.

  4. + 6 more definitions
    1. Lacking in reality or substance.

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

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

    3. Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.

    4. Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating…

      Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)

      • The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.
    5. The subjective case.

    6. A noun or pronoun in the subjective case.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at subjective. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at subjective. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at subjective

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA