subjectivity

C1 Topic:Mind & Cognition
US /səbdʒɛkˈtɪvɪti/
noun Freq #74180

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    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.

  2. 2
    noun

    judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts

  3. 3
    noun

    The state of being subjective.

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2 noun · judgment based on... subjectiveness
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Etymology

From French subjectivité, equivalent to subjective + -ity.

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