Definition of "subjectivism"

subjectivism

/səbˈd͡ʒɛktəvɪzm̩/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural subjectivisms
1. (metaphysics) The doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.
2. (epistemology) The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition.
  Quotations
  Subjectivism takes as its allies the emotions, intuitive insight, imagination, humaneness, art, and a “higher” truth.
  1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 25, in Metaphors We Live By
3. (ethics) The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.