Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for subjectivity. Search instead for subjectivists.
Definitions

subjectivity

[suhb-jek-tiv-i-tee] / ˌsʌb dʒɛkˈtɪv ɪ ti /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Selznick deplored Hitchcock’s “goddamn jigsaw cutting,” the dreamlike, jagged images that create his signature subjectivity, but Webb didn’t mind it at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The court’s language frames the issue as biology vs. identity, objectivity vs. subjectivity, reality vs. fiction.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

"Bringing these two fields together can open up for a more holistic psychology, in which both neurological mechanisms and subjective experience are included. In this way, we can understand subjectivity in a more scientific manner."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026

She voiced frustration over the subjectivity that she says now shapes the process.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

In Montaigne’s case this resulted in a peculiar emphasis on the subjectivity of what we know, its dependence on our personal experience.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Furthermore, the album engages with Berlant's concept of gendered subjectivities, which emphasizes the fluid and performative nature of identity.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024

He’s done his homework, yes, but like any good writer he pushes himself to explore his various characters’ subjectivities as far as it’s possible to go.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2020

A Shakespeare play is not a political statement, it’s a mosh pit of subjectivities, and here the audience was expected to sit back and rationally parse a theatrical Rorschach blot.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2020

“Awareness that one’s self possesses multiple possible subjectivities or identities resists categorization,” he writes.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2018

Following Clifford, I will call these inferred subjectivities by the name of ejects, and assign to them the symbol y.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by George John Romanes


Vocabulary lists containing subjectivity

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember new words for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com