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subjectivity

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


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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

Handball is a prime example, with Uefa applying a strict interpretation - less room for subjectivity, fewer reasons for the VAR to leave it alone.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

“Nailed it. Either that or I failed horribly. Could go either way, based on subjectivity and revisionist history,” Sean murmured.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

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

They own up to their own subjectivities and doubts.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021

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

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

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2018

Even the knowledge that we have of the two great conditions under which terrestrial subjectivities occur—circumscription and complexity—is only empirical.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by George John Romanes




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