Meanings
nounsubjectivation (countable and uncountable, plural subjectivations)
plural subjectivations
- countableuncountableThe process of turning subjective.
The historic interest of the belief is its subjectivation of the source of necessity and the correlated "loosening," as Hume would say, of states of consciousness.
1893, Edward Douglas Fawcett, The Riddle of the Universe: Being an Attempt to Determine the First Principles of Metaphysic, Considered as an Inquiry Into the Conditions and Import of Consciousness
Origin
From subjective + -ation; attested since the 19th century.
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