adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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Reactions can therefore be highly subjective and we may find ourselves disagreeing strongly with what the artist is saying.
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Evaluative core beliefs, however, are often highly subjective .
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Each year, a decision is taken, often on a highly subjective basis, on our continuing worth.
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Data on the market value of autos and houses can be highly subjective .
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In the final analysis a judgement on the political stability of most countries must be highly subjective .
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Secondly, many of the symptoms produced are highly subjective - headache, confusion or nausea, for example.
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To start the Christmas debate, the following are highly subjective and totally personal suggestions.
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However, this is a highly subjective area in which the rules themselves can only be guiding principles.
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A subjective view Choreographers can also take a more subjective view of their work.
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Hedonic value is more subjective and personal than its utilitarian counterpart and results from fun and playfulness rather than from task completion.
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Some ethologists favour a purely quantitative approach, while others prefer a more subjective treatment.
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Price is easy to measure; service is far more subjective .
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Chapters 5 and 6 explore the more subjective , sometimes unpleasant, aspects of power.
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Judgment of humorous writing is even more subjective than with any other kind.
purely
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It has an irritatingly small backspace key and I think it has a horrible plastic feel, but this is purely subjective .
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The truth is, he just grosses me out -- this is purely subjective .
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This attitude was, of course, purely subjective , and their appreciation of primitive art was almost entirely emotional.
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It is difficult to avoid the feeling that this, one of his first university essays, is purely subjective .
very
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At times she was very subjective , at others quite detached as if floating outside her body.
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Martin Scorsese is a very subjective artist, if not one with much sense of perspective.
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Sometimes the approach is very subjective , but the result is entertaining and informative, easy to read and full of insight.
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Odours are very subjective in nature and affect people in different ways.
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This is very subjective and I question whose past he's referring to.
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They are very subjective , unlike shoplifting.
■ NOUN
assessment
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Some have been used informally for many years, subjective assessments such as those made by parents, teachers, and librarians.
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As a practising scientist, I could not allow such subjective assessments of the human condition to influence my work.
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We were particularly interested in the practices' subjective assessments of the impact of this change on practice management and patient care.
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That exercise, inevitably based on superficial and subjective assessments , allows too much scope for prejudice and irrationality.
experience
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She ignores the usual boundaries drawn between these factors, and subjective experience .
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The subjective experience of individual actors is brought together with the objective reality of public issues.
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We just need to add something else, some new fundamental principles, to bridge the gap between neuroscience and subjective experience .
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If we believe that humans have evolved, we are liable to assume that our subjective experiences are shared by other animals.
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My point is that the form that an animal's subjective experience takes will be a property of the internal computer model.
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Clearly, this emphasis on subjective experience and meaning can help to further an understanding of ageing with a disability.
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Our objective measures of light intensity would be discarded if they universally gave answers that contradicted our subjective experiences .
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They were also starting to analyse subjective experiences of gender, and were finding traditional psychological accounts of them inadequate.
impression
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The emphasis is on objective analysis of evidence rather than on a subjective impression of any single witness.
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Beyond this, however, many of the claims were supported by anecdotal and subjective impressions only.
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The findings of this questionnaire do not unfortunately enable us to assess such subjective impressions .
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The subjective impressions experienced by the observers were influenced by their expectations.
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However, there is no data to show that first babies really do cry more - it is just a subjective impression .
interpretation
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We wanted both detailed accounts and subjective interpretations , and we were given both.
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Smith told me that his opinion was based upon his subjective interpretation of the statutes.
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Age is the most obvious factor that will change the subjective interpretation of events.
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This relates to both the farm worker's own expectations from life and his subjective interpretations of what he sees around him.
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This humanistic attention to the subjective interpretation by prisoners of their situation marks a distinct departure from the orthodox account.
judgement
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The individual's employment involves a subjective judgement on the part of some one else.
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However, there are serious drawbacks to this approach which relies very much on the analyst's interpretational skills and subjective judgement .
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Perfection is relative and, for potato lice or anything else, depends on subjective judgement .
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Our subjective judgement of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.
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The subjective judgement of an alien with a lifetime of a million centuries will be quite different.
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In fact our subjective judgement is probably wrong by an even greater margin.
judgements
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Accruing depreciation, stock valuations, provisions for doubtful debts, etc., are subjective judgements which make historic cost profit subjective.
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Comparing these subjective judgements with actual costs might suggest that people are wrong about, for example check trading being cheap.
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This is usually done by the subjective judgment of the officer concerned.
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Reasonableness, however is a subjective judgment , which in turn can lead to differences of opinion.
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Marking the tests calls for a dangerous amount of subjective judgment .
meaning
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The task of the social sciences is seen by Schutz to be the understanding of the subjective meaning of social action.
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Nor are subjective meanings or rational choices independent of public social rules for doing the right or rational thing.
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If action stems from subjective meanings , it follows that the sociologist must discover those meanings in order to understand action.
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Studies of action are concerned with the subjective meaning attached to actions by human beings.
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Another major limiting factor in excavation is the subjective nature of the excavation process.
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Inevitably this leads to the question of injecting matters of a subjective nature into the account.
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This has generated considerable concern about the ethnographic experience itself, and specifically about the subjective nature of the process.
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The subjective nature of measuring program effectiveness may lead to irreconcilable differences between the review staff and program management.
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It is the subjective nature of ethnicity which can make it tricky to handle as a speaker variable.
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The strength of the Marxist approach was its acknowledgement of the subjective nature of historical reconstruction.
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Because of the subjective nature of the experience, pain tends to be enhanced by anxiety and stressful situations.
opinion
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In general, young children may not distinguish between judgements about reality and judgements about appearance or subjective opinion .
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The owners' subjective opinions are borne out by objective facts.
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If sociologists produce their own statistics these too are the product of subjective opinions , in this case the opinions of sociologists.
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Comparisons can be made and standards judged on quantitive data rather than on subjective opinion .
response
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As stated earlier, subjective responses to ageing are also shaped by social and material resources.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A person's perception of stress is often very subjective .
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Hiring new employees can be very much a subjective process.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beyond this, however, many of the claims were supported by anecdotal and subjective impressions only.
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It is the subjective voice, the primary experience of hunger.
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Martin Scorsese is a very subjective artist, if not one with much sense of perspective.
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Once again there is no hint of an overall inverted-U relationship or indeed any overall relationship between subjective risk and recognition sensitivity.
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One of the questions most central to this research was whether drivers can generally report fluctuating levels of subjective risk.
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The subjective theory, for example, when put to work on causation by a proponent, renders causation subjective.
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The test is a subjective one.
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These interpretations, however, are based on the assumption that there were no effects of subjective risk in Study 2.