All 12 Uses
subjective
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The Magic Mountain
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- It's no longer a matter of a subjective feeling now, but of precise evidence.†
Chpt 4.10subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- Thanks so much, I'm feeling almost normal, subjectively at least.†
Chpt 5.1 *subjectively = in a manner influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- It continued to glow as a dry, subjective flush in his pink face, a reminder that for this child of the lowlands with their intoxicatingly damp meteorology, acclimatization consisted primarily of getting used to not getting used to things—which, by the way, Rhadamanthus himself, with his purple cheeks, had never done.†
Chpt 6.3subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- And his homage was genuine, rooted deep within his nature; for, as he himself explained, Judaism—thanks to its earthy, practical character, its socialism, its political spirituality—was far nearer to the Catholic sphere, was incomparably more closely related to it, than to the self-absorption and mystical subjectivity of Protestantism; this meant that it was decidedly less intellectually disruptive for a Jew to convert to the Roman church than for a Protestant to do so.†
Chpt 6.6subjectivity = the quality or degree of being influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- whereas he, Naphta—well aware that mankind's inner conflict was based instead on the contradiction between what the senses register and what transcends the senses—represented true, mystical individualism and was in actuality the genuine man of freedom and subjectivity.†
Chpt 6.6
- So that you really could not call it ironclad objectivity; there was more freedom and subjectivity to it than Leo Naphta would have been willing to admit—it was in its own way just as "political" as Herr Settembrini's didactic statement that freedom was the law of brotherly love.†
Chpt 6.6
- What constituted man's true state and condition: obliteration in all-devouring, all-leveling community, which was a simultaneously voluptuous and ascetic act; or "critical subjectivity," where bombast and strict bourgeois virtue were at loggerheads?†
Chpt 6.6
- It's a good wall, good logs that seem to give off a certain warmth, to the extent you can speak of warmth in this case—the discreet, peculiar warmth of wood, though it may be more a matter of mood, more subjective.†
Chpt 6.7subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- We are not subjectively aware of them, they exist only in the world of objective events—and that's that.†
Chpt 6.8subjectively = in a manner influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- Time, although the subjective experience of it may be weakened or even abrogated, is an objective reality to the extent that it is active and "brings forth."†
Chpt 7.1subjective = influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
- In matters of love, a woman, as nearly as I can determine, primarily regards herself as simply an object, she lets things come at her, she does not choose freely, she makes her own subjective choice in love only on the basis of the man's choice, so that, if you will permit me to add this final point, her freedom of choice— presuming, of course, that the man in question is not too sorry a specimen, and even that cannot be regarded as all too strict a requirement—her freedom of choice, then, is prejudiced and corrupted by the fact that she has been chosen.†
Chpt 7.4
- It was no longer a simple case of lending assistance to the medium's subjectivity so that it might find a mirror in reality, but rather—at least partially, at least tentatively—certain "selves" from outside, from beyond, got mixed up in things; what they were dealing with—possibly, though never expressly admitted—were nonvital elements, entities that used the convoluted, furtive opportunity of the moment to return to matter and manifest themselves to whoever called them—in short, the spiritualistic conjuring of the dead.†
Chpt 7.8subjectivity = the quality or degree of being influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)
Definitions:
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(subjective) influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)Subjective is often contrasted to objective--meaning based upon fact without the influence of personal feelings or preferences.
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In grammar, subjective can refer to a noun or pronoun inflection that indicates the relationship between terms in a sentence. For example, in "She ran home," she is the subject of the verb ran and the sentence is in the subjective (aka nominative) case.