subjectivation

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.

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French

Etymology

Attested since the 19th century.

Pronunciation

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Noun

subjectivation f (plural subjectivations)

1. subjectivation

Further reading

• “subjectivation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.