Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being abstract.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object
Etymologies
- abstract + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I like Animal Collective, but I cannot stand the visual "abstractness" in their videos.”
“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
“* Aptitudes: cognitive abilities; 'abstractness' of inteprative complexity”
“Sadly, that type of innovativeness has traditionally been denied to the software patent system on the basis of "abstractness" or "preemption.”
“I want the "abstractness" of the figure to reflect the fragility of the human condition.”
“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
“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.”
“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.”
“The abstractness of the tiny drawing was beautiful.”
The Huffington Post: Katherine Dunn: The Final Sketch of a Life
“Maybe you love learning how businesses work, but you're brought down by the abstractness of what you do or the lousy hours.”
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