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intersubjective

adjective

intersubjective is an adjective meaning “Involving or occurring between separate conscious minds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-E-R-S-U-B-J-E-C-T-I-V-E, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does intersubjective mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Involving or occurring between separate conscious minds.

  2. 2

    Accessible to or capable of being established for two or more subjects.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is intersubjective?

Intersubjective appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Intersubjective in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense inter-subjective:

LanguageWords
Frenchintersubjectif
Germanintersubjektiv
Spanishintersubjetivo

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does intersubjective come from?

From inter- + subjective.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).