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ABSTRACTNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("abstractness" is a kind of...):
immateriality; incorporeality (the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter)
Attribute:
abstract (existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment)
Antonym:
concreteness (the quality of being concrete (not abstract))
Derivation:
abstract (existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment)
abstract (dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention)
abstract (not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature)
