Explore Subjective through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like personal or prejudiced. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Subjective meaning
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
Synonyms of Subjective
Using Subjective
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. | 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.) | 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.
- Useful related words include: personal, prejudiced, unobjective, unverifiable.
- In the example corpus, subjective often appears in combinations such as: subjective and, is subjective, the subjective.
Context around Subjective
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Subjective
- In this selection, "subjective" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, emotional, main, incorporate, activities, reason and idealism stand out and add context to how "subjective" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abstract and subjective they cannot and all non subjective occurrences including. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "subjective" sits close to words such as aboriginal, blonde and concealed, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with subjective
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And I found that the subjective assertions sensationalized … and exacerbated conflict …. (11 words)
Yeah, except that beauty is subjective, and science doesn't really do subjective. (13 words)
Beliefs are extremely abstract and subjective; they cannot be minimized into two categories. (13 words)
Subjective speckles When an image is formed of a rough surface which is illuminated by a coherent light (e.g. a laser beam), a speckle pattern is observed in the image plane; this is called a “subjective speckle pattern” – see image above. (42 words)
The subjective case form of pronouns is used when pronouns occur as grammatical subject of a sentence, and oblique forms are used for all non-subjective occurrences including accusative, dative, predicative, comparative and other types of constructions. (37 words)
A dependable white tank top is a wardrobe essential, though it’s also one of the more subjective items in any closet, since everyone has different requirements and preferences when it comes to fashionable basics. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Yeah, except that beauty is subjective, and science doesn't really do subjective.
All subjective activities of consciousness need an ideal correlate, and objective logic (constituted noematically ) as it is constituted by consciousness needs a noetic correlate (the subjective activities of consciousness).
Despite the explicit common referrals to "subjective" reason in the book, his frequent connecting of it with relativism could be an indication that by "subjective reason" Horkheimer also means "relativist reason".
Subjective claims convey emotional, subjective, impressions of intangible aspects of a product or service.
Subjective idealism main Subjective Idealism ( immaterialism or phenomenalism ) describes a relationship between experience and the world in which objects are no more than collections or "bundles" of sense data in the perceiver.
Subjective information Sometimes it is useful to incorporate subjective information into a mathematical model.
Subjective speckles When an image is formed of a rough surface which is illuminated by a coherent light (e.g. a laser beam), a speckle pattern is observed in the image plane; this is called a “subjective speckle pattern” – see image above.
The input arguments in subjective logic are composite functions called subjective opinions which can be binomial when the opinion applies to a single proposition or multinomial when it applies to a set of propositions.
The subjective case form of pronouns is used when pronouns occur as grammatical subject of a sentence, and oblique forms are used for all non-subjective occurrences including accusative, dative, predicative, comparative and other types of constructions.
This subjective experience is often called a quale (plural qualia ), and it describes the private "raw feel" or the subjective " what-it-is-like " that is the inner accompaniment of many mental states.
A dependable white tank top is a wardrobe essential, though it’s also one of the more subjective items in any closet, since everyone has different requirements and preferences when it comes to fashionable basics.
And as we know in South Carolina, bond decisions can be hugely subjective – and tremendously controversial.
And I found that the subjective assertions sensationalized … and exacerbated conflict ….
A recent council survey confirmed the residents’ subjective assessment that a very high percentage of the traffic travelling both in and out of the 30mph section towards Kinloss was travelling at excessive speed.
A suspicion is subjective and may involve several factors that on their own could seem insignificant but taken together may arouse suspicion concerning that situation.
At this point, it’s worth mentioning that lyrical interpretation is, of course, entirely subjective, and Taylor very rarely reveals who her songs are about.
Beliefs are extremely abstract and subjective; they cannot be minimized into two categories.
Both will provide permanency for birds and pollinators while shrinking or eliminating the lawn, which frankly, has no redeeming value aside from subjective aesthetics, anyway.
But, if one studies music as an art form, one will realise that it is very subjective.
By focusing on the individual, Romanticism aimed to connect with the viewer on a profoundly emotional and subjective level.
Common combinations with subjective
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- subjective and 25×
- is subjective 24×
- the subjective 18×
- and subjective 12×
- are subjective 9×
- highly subjective 8×
- subjective experience 7×
- more subjective 7×
- be subjective 7×
- subjective but 6×