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to subjectivize

to subjectivize

9.0
To treat something as a personal opinion rather than a fact
  • verb
  • /səbˈdʒɛktɪvaɪz/
  • Formal
translation icon : subjetivar
  • The author's choice to subjectivize the narrative allows readers to connect with the characters' feelings on a deeper level.

Examples

  • But today, in the context of the Picasso movie, I am less sanguine about the strategy of subjectivizing the voice of the historian.

    Academic text (1994)

  • If Vico seems to subjectivize the historical discipline by placing self-knowledge at the center of the search for truth in all the other sciences, it is also thanks to him that history is independent of metaphysics and that historians today have "nothing to teach but history."

    Academic text (1998)

  • Thus again, the epic drama of revolution was trivialized and subjectivized.

    Blog text (34)

  • Her phantasmagorical imagery represents an attempt to subjectivize contemporary empirical understanding of physics and to make it a heroic narrative journey.

    Academic text (2017)

  • For him, the personified or "subjectivized" object is an "incurable symptom" that cannot be overcome, but may be better understood.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Thus, fragmentation radically subjectivizes chronology in such a way as to force our realization of lived time as a purely cognitive construct.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The technique is not confined to the subjectivized narrative game played in Mulligan Stew, but can also involve the provision of alternate endings as in The French Lieutenant's Woman.

    Academic text (1995)

  • It is information, understood in such a pluralistic sense, which is truly subverting metaphysics by breaking down the subject/object divide, subjectivizing the object and objectifying the subject.

    Academic text (2016)

  • He tends to subjectivize his experiences, viewing them through the lens of his personal beliefs.

  • In her latest painting, she aims to subjectivize the landscape, reflecting her emotional response to the scenery.

Synonyms

to editorialize
vsto subjectivize
  • Literature
12 8.1

To give your own opinion when you should be neutral

is more general, meaning to make something subjective rather than only voicing opinion
to subjectify
vsto subjectivize
8.4

Treat something using personal feelings instead of facts

has identical meaning but is a different form of the same expression

Antonyms

to objectivize
  • Offensive
8.4

To treat ideas or feelings as things to measure

How Subjective

to distort
97 4.6
to subjectivize
  • Formal
9.0
to personalize
  • US
75 4.0
to interpret
386 3.3
report
∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

subjectivize infinitive
subjectivized past
subjectivized past participle
subjectivizing present participle
subjectivizes third person singular

Morphology

subjectivize = subjective (transparent) = subject + ive + ize

Formed by adding the productive verbalizer '-ize' to the adjective 'subjective', meaning 'to make or render subjective', which is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word subjectivize comes from the common word subjective, which means 'about personal feelings', and the ending -ize, which means 'make'. So to subjectivize something is to make it personal or to see it through someone's feelings and opinions instead of treating it as a plain fact.