English
subjectivity
Subjectivity comes from French subjectif ‘subjective’, and goes back to Latin subiectivus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubiectivus‘subjective’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentsubjectif‘subjective’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentsubjectivité
- Englishearliest quotation 1998subjectivity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubiectivus‘subjective’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentsubjectif‘subjective’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentsubjectivité
- Englishearliest quotation 1998subjectivity
Earliest quotation: 1998, Ching Kwan Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle: “Beyond bringing women back into analyses of the workplace…”
Formed from subjective + -ity
Latin subiectīvus
English subjective
Every English word from Latin subiectivus
Today it means
noun The state of being subjective.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin subiectivus / subjectivity