subjectivation

English

Etymology

subjective + -ation; attested since the 19th century.

Noun

subjectivation (countable and uncountable, plural subjectivations)

  1. The process of turning subjective.
    • 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:
      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.

French

Etymology

Attested since the 19th century.

Pronunciation

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Noun

subjectivation f (plural subjectivations)

  1. subjectivation
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