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subjectivity

subjectivity

14 7.2
An opinion influenced by personal feelings rather than facts
  • noun
  • /səbˈdʒɛk.tɪ.vɪ.ti/
translation icon : subjetividad
  • The subjectivity of personal opinions makes it challenging to agree on matters of taste.
  • subjectivity and objectivity
  • historical subjectivity
  • subjectivity and identity

It's a sense of experience, subjectivity, anteriority, a point of view.

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Examples

  • But if subjectivity is taught, then it might be possible to relearn it.

  • Women's attempts to claim subjectivity have been the focus of much feminist theorizing in the past decade.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Hi, about the subjectivity issue that just came up.

  • I felt it was important for me not to hide my subjectivity behind the work.

    Academic text (1999)
  • But what I've tried to do is remove some of the subjectivity to these experiences.

  • Your constituents want you for your opinions, your philosophy... for your subjectivity.

  • The quality of perceiving it as such is what I refer to as subjectivity.

    Academic text (1999)
  • My goal is not to fall into the quagmire of the historical/nonhistorical, objectivity/subjectivity, faith/knowledge debates.

    Academic text (2008)
  • As a writer establishing his own authorial subjectivity, Swift capitalizes uneasily on these tensions.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Third, it avoids the perceived subjectivity, rivalry, nepotism, and secrecy of peer-review systems.

    Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

subjectiveness
vssubjectivity
7.5

A decision or opinion based on personal feelings rather than facts

is identical in meaning but uses an alternative noun form

Antonyms

46 5.3

Making decisions based on facts, not personal feelings

How Subjective

prejudice
180 4.8
bias
  • Specialized
261 5.2
subjectivity
14 7.2
opinion
1.0

Surface Forms

subjectivity singular

Morphology

subjectivity = subjective (transparent) = subject + ive + ity

The word 'subjectivity' is transparently formed from 'subjective' by adding the suffix '-ity', indicating a state or quality.

Etymology

Subjectivity comes from the word subject, which is made of sub- 'under' and -ject 'to put', so it originally meant 'to put under' or be under something. So subjectivity is like being 'under' your own feelings or opinions instead of following outside facts.