subjectivation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
subjective + -ation; attested since the 19th century.
Noun[edit]
subjectivation (countable and uncountable, plural subjectivations)
- 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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Attested since the 19th century.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
subjectivation f (plural subjectivations)
Further reading[edit]
- “subjectivation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.