Definition of "subjectivity" [sub•jec•tiv•i•ty]

• The state of being subjective. (noun)
• A subjective thought or idea. (noun)

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• "But arguments about music of the sort Kivy advances are intended to be taken literally, since if we settle for the listener's experience of various emotions (or anything else you'd care to call them), an irretrievable element of subjectivity is being granted, the kind of subjectivity that makes "modern" atonal music possible in the first place."
• "The older, often perfectly good word "subjectivity" is decidedly multivalent."
• "In so far as these judgements of content and purpose are dependent on judgements of import however, a subjectivity is introduced that can generate errors of a specific type, where the reader introduces an entirely spurious significance that is the product of an unreasonable response — an Import Artifice."