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Abstractness   Listen
noun
Abstractness  n.  The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Abstractness" Quotes from Famous Books



... perspective and colour valuation of individual minds there must have been; and since it is not given to us to reproduce those of the near spectator in a region which we can never enter, we may yet sometimes console ourselves for the too melancholy abstractness and averageness of scientific representations, by painting that distant historic country as distant indeed, but as its far-off hill ranges and shimmering plains really appear in their combination of form and colour, from the height of an individual interest of our own, and beneath ...
— Euphorion - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the - Renaissance - Vol. I • Vernon Lee

... that the source of value is not the accident of Nature, but Nature redeemed, regenerated by spirit, that all values are moral values, led to a certain abstractness of treatment,—on one side qualities to be embodied, on the other figures to receive them, so that the character seems adventitious, detachable, not thoroughly at one with the form. For instance, the fiends in the Orvieto Inferno are not terror embodied, as the Jove of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864 • Various



Words linked to "Abstractness" :   incorporeality, concreteness, abstract, immateriality



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