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subjectivity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • [ˌsʌbd͡ʒəkˈtɪvəɾi] (Canada, General-American)
  • [ˌsʌbd͡ʒɛkˈtɪvɪɾi] (Canada, General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˌsʌbd͡ʒɛkˈtɪvɪti/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /ˌsʌbd͡ʒɛkˈtɪvɪti/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˌsʌbd͡ʒəkˈtɪvəti/ (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

From French subjectivité, equivalent to subjective + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being subjective.
  2. (countable) A subjective thought or idea.
    • Beyond bringing women back into analyses of the workplace and the labor process, we now have to analyze how work is gendered and gendering: gender as a means of control and an organizing principle for class relations at the point of production, and workplace as a site for gender construction, formation, and reproduction. In the latest development, seeing gender as a power process also directs our attention toward the politics of identity, or the formation and claiming of collective subjectivities. 1998, Ching Kwan Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23:

Forms

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subjectivities Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

objectivity

Coordinates

objectivity

Deriveds

metasubjectivity

Relateds

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 608. Caprice · capricious · subjective · nonreproducible · one man's loss is another man's gain · pet peeve · hate · unpredictability · caprice · deem · opinionated · like · criterion · there's no accounting for taste · taste · think · opinion · reality · Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 317. Immateriality · rule · one man's trash is another man's treasure · prefer · love · fact · your mileage may vary · opine · untraceable · unverifiable · preference · nonreproducibility · dispreference · dislike · personal · whim · feeling · one man's meat is another man's poison · I like it · disprefer · chance · standard · it's great · reproducibility · independence · in my opinion · randomness · whimsical · nondeterministic · random · truth

Synonyms

subjectiveness · subjectivity

Translations (26)

hy սուբյեկտիվություն (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · id subjektivitas (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · tr öznellik (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · cmn 主體性 /主体性 (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · ja 主観性 (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · ast suxetividá (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · nn subjektivitet (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · ru субъекти́вность (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · km ប្រធានវិស័យភាព (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · ms kesubjektifan (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · nl subjectiviteit (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · ca subjectivitat (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · kk субъективтілік (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · ro subiectivitate (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · fr subjectivité (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · de Subjektivität (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · cmn 主觀性 /主观性 (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · vi tính chủ quan (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · nb subjektivitet (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · pt subjetividade (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · es subjetividad (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · fi subjektiivisuus (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · pt subjetividade (a subjective thought) · pl subiektywność (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · el υποκειμενικότητα (state of being subjective — see also objectivity) · gl subxectividade (state of being subjective — see also objectivity)