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| emotion |
a strong feeling or subjective response such as joy, hatred, or love, sometimes accompanied by involuntary physical changes such as increased pulse or by activity such as crying, laughing, or trembling. [2/3 definitions] |
| emotional |
easily roused to subjective response; tending to experience emotion. [1/4 definitions] |
| expressionism |
a movement in the arts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that emphasized the artist's subjective experience or perceptions, expressed through symbolic and often distorted or unconventional treatment of material. |
| gonzo |
(slang) esp. in journalism, bizarre, exaggerated, and intentionally subjective. |
| immanent |
in philosophy, of or pertaining to a thought process taking place completely within the mind and having no effect outside it; subjective. [1/3 definitions] |
| impressionism |
comparable movements in literature, poetry, and music that sought to render subjective impressions and moods through evocative harmonies, associations, and the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| lyricism |
a strong, spontaneous outpouring of subjective feeling; enthusiasm; exuberance. [1/2 definitions] |
| new journalism |
(sometimes cap.) a style of reporting characterized by the reporter's subjective interpretations and the insertion of dramatized, fictional events, conversations, and the like. |
| nonsubjective |
combined form of subjective. |
| phenomenology |
the philosophical study of phenomena, esp. of subjective perceptual experience, as distinguished from ontology, the study of being. |
| Rorschach test |
a psychological test in which a profile of the patient is formed on the basis of the patient's subjective interpretation of standardized designs that resemble ink blots. |
| subjectivism |
the quality or condition of being subjective. [1/2 definitions] |
| value judgment |
an estimate, usu. subjective, of the worth of a person, object, event, or the like, esp. when such an estimate is not called for. |
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