Subjectivity
noun
noun ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state of being subjective. countable, singular, singular-only, uncountable
- 2 judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts wordnet
- 3 A subjective thought or idea. countable, uncountable
"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."
Synonyms
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More examples"Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity."
Etymology
From French subjectivité, equivalent to subjective + -ity.