\Sub*jec"tive\, a. [L. subjectivus: cf. F.
subjectif.]
1. Of or pertaining to a subject.
2. Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own
   consciousness, in distinction from external observation;
   ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in
   distinction from the outward or material excessively
   occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal
   states.
Note: In the philosophy of the mind, subjective denotes what
      is to be referred to the thinking subject, the ego;
      objective, what belongs to the object of thought, the
      non-ego. See {Objective}, a., 2. --Sir W. Hamilton.
3. (Lit. & Art) Modified by, or making prominent, the
   individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective
   drama or painting; a subjective writer.
Syn: See {Objective}.
{Subjective sensation} (Physiol.), one of the sensations
   occurring when stimuli due to internal causes excite the
   nervous apparatus of the sense organs, as when a person
   imagines he sees figures which have no objective reality.
   -- {Sub*jec"tive*ly}, adv. -- {Sub*jec"tive*ness}, n.