abstractness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
abstractness (countable and uncountable, plural abstractnesses)
- The quality of being abstract. [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242:
- The abstractness of the ideas.
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Translations[edit]
the quality of being abstract
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References[edit]
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstractness”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.