subjective

a. [ L. subjectivus: cf. F. subjectif. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the philosophy of the mind, subjective denotes what is to be referred to the thinking subject, the ego; objective, what belongs to the object of thought, the non-ego. See Objective, a., 2. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Lit. & Art) Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Objective. [ 1913 Webster ]

Subjective sensation (Physiol.), one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes excite the nervous apparatus of the sense organs, as when a person imagines he sees figures which have no objective reality. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sub*jec"tive*ly, adv. -- Sub*jec"tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]