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Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.

n the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies. -- Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the pers…

radistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.

Remaining within; inherent; indwelling; abiding; intrinsic; internal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant, transitory, transitive, or objective. A cognition is an immanent act of mind. Sir W. Hamilton. An immanent power in the life of the…

Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective. Everything labors under and intestine necessity. Cudworth.

To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him. Baker.

exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed to subjective. In the Middle Ages, subject meant substance, and has this sense in Descartes and Spinoza: sometimes, also, in Reid. Subjective is used by William of Occam to denote that which exists independent of mind; objective, wha…

"The employment of subjective and objective mechanical means to determine the accomodative and refractive states of the eye and the scope of its function in general."

tion and traditional decoration are entirely abolished and a work of art becomes a purely subjective expression in an arbitrary and personal language.

One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.

Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.

The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.