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Meanings of abstractness in English
Property of dealing in generality or ideal representations, not being concrete with regard to instances of a phenomenon being discussed.
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Examples for "ideal"
Examples for "ideal"
1
In the winter it was cozy; in the summer it was ideal.
2
Their current deals expire next year, which Wenger called an ideal situation.
3
On that note, the Cam McCarthy situation is clearly far from ideal.
4
Far from ideal, however, is the timing of the change in leadership.
5
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society.
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It was still distant, abstract: battles at sea thousands of miles off.
2
Part of the problem is that microformats are thus far very abstract.
3
Freedom -rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract, yes?'
4
ITF's interest in Ireland's rescue services therefore is not an abstract thing.
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The idea of vegetation in general is too abstract to be primitive.
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And those concerns aren't just theoretical; dangerous lapses happen all the time.
2
However, the theoretical mechanism governing this process is still not entirely understood.
3
This work provides a theoretical basis for understanding the described experimental observations.
4
But, just as a theoretical question, suppose examination did reveal physical damage?
5
Rung said the theoretical benefits of parks go beyond encouraging physical activity.
Usage of abstractness in English
1
The soaring sublimity of the Moslem monotheism comes partly from its narrowness and abstractness.
2
The open arms of the world!-howmocking in its abstractness.
3
Of such abstractness and one-sidedness I accuse most of the critics of my own account.
4
Anything approaching abstractness did not.
5
The logical relation stands to the psychological relation between idea and object only as saltatory abstractness stands to ambulatory concreteness.
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But from the human point of view, no one can pretend that it doesn't suffer from the faults of remoteness and abstractness.
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The core of identity is there, and, although in its bald abstractness it is not enough to live by, it is vastly significant, nevertheless.
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Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.
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But-and he frowned again as much at the abstractness as at the bleakness of the thought-there would be days after the five shillings were gone.
Frequent collocations
Abstractness through the time