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Subjective vs Subjectivist - What's the difference?

subjective | subjectivist |

As adjectives the difference between subjective and subjectivist

is that subjective is 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) while subjectivist is (philosophy) regarding subjective experience as fundamental.

As a noun subjectivist is

one who subscribes to subjectivism.

subjective

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.)
  • Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, not upon observation or reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=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.
  • Lacking in reality or substance.
  • As used by (Carl Jung), the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
  • (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
  • Antonyms

    * objective

    subjectivist

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (philosophy) Regarding subjective experience as fundamental
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  • , passage=When Martin rejects a foundationalist as well a subjectivist understanding of phenomenology (5f.), instead stressing phenomenology’s “characteristic concern” with “the structure of experience” (6),

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who subscribes to subjectivism
  • See also

    *(Subjectivism)