Subjective vs. Biased — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Subjective and Biased
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Subjective
Dependent on or taking place in a person's mind rather than the external world
"The sensation of pain is a highly subjective experience that varies by culture as well as by individual temperament and situation" (John Hoberman).
Biased
Marked by or exhibiting bias; prejudiced
Gave a biased account of the trial.
Subjective
Based on a given person's experience, understanding, and feelings; personal or individual
Admitted he was making a highly subjective judgment.
Biased
Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
Subjective
(Psychology) Not caused by external stimuli.
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Biased
Angled at a slant.
The table had a biased edge.
Subjective
(Medicine) Of, relating to, or designating a symptom or complaint perceived by a patient.
Biased
(electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is applied.
Subjective
Expressing or bringing into prominence the individuality of the artist or author.
Biased
(statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
Subjective
(Grammar) Relating to or being the nominative case.
Biased
Simple past tense and past participle of bias
She biased them against him for no apparent reason.
Subjective
Relating to the real nature of something; essential.
Biased
Favoring one person or side over another;
A biased account of the trial
A decision that was partial to the defendant
Subjective
Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, not upon observation or reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
Biased
Excessively devoted to one faction
Subjective
Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
Subjective
Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
Subjective
Lacking in reality or substance.
Subjective
As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
Subjective
Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
Subjective
Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.
Subjective
Of or pertaining to a subject.
Subjective
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.
Subjective
Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.
Subjective
Taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias;
A subjective judgment
Subjective
Of a mental act performed entirely within the mind;
A cognition is an immanent act of mind
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