subjectivist
/səbˈdʒɛktɪvɪst/
noun
- A person who believes that opinions, values, and knowledge come from personal feelings and experiences rather than from universal facts.
- He was a subjectivist when it came to morality, arguing that right and wrong depend on the individual.
- As a subjectivist, she thought that beauty was entirely in the eye of the beholder.
- The debate between the subjectivist and the objectivist lasted for hours.
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adjective
- Relating to or supporting the belief that personal feelings and experiences are the basis of opinions and knowledge.
- The subjectivist approach to ethics says that there are no universal moral rules.
- Her subjectivist views made her skeptical of any claim to absolute truth.
- The book takes a subjectivist stance on the nature of reality.