Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being abstract; a state of being in contemplation only, or not connected with any object: as, “the abstractness of the ideas themselves,” Locke, Human Understanding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being abstract.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object
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Examples
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I like Animal Collective, but I cannot stand the visual "abstractness" in their videos.
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While this emancipation from the conditions and episodes of concrete experiences accounts for the remoteness, the "abstractness," of science, it also accounts for its wide and free range of fruitful novel applications in practice.
democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916
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Sadly, that type of innovativeness has traditionally been denied to the software patent system on the basis of "abstractness" or "preemption."
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* Aptitudes: cognitive abilities; 'abstractness' of inteprative complexity
Latest Articles 2009
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* Aptitudes: cognitive abilities; 'abstractness' of inteprative complexity
Latest Articles 2009
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I want the "abstractness" of the figure to reflect the fragility of the human condition.
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I want the "abstractness" of the figure to reflect the fragility of the human condition.
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"abstractness," of science, it also accounts for its wide and free range of fruitful novel applications in practice.
Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education John Dewey 1905
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This swelling border, added last, embraces all but the lower left corner of the centralized image, canceling out the lingering sense of rational space of "Sketch 1" and pushing the vestiges of the troika, St. George and a mountainous landscape firmly toward abstractness.
Complementary Abstractionists Karen Wilkin 2011
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For all its abstractness, "Mountains and Sea" is fundamentally a landscape painting, and nature—its forms, its moods and above all its unbridled power—remained a recurring metaphor in Frankenthaler's art.
Pushing Past Abstraction Eric Gibson 2011
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