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Abstractness

noun

The quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object.

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"Abstractness" Quotes from Famous Books

... conjecture that the names Carnival, Death, and Summer are comparatively late and inadequate expressions for the beings personified or embodied in the customs with which we have been dealing. The very abstractness of the names bespeaks a modern origin; for the personification of times and seasons like the Carnival and Summer, or of an abstract notion like death, is not primitive. But the ceremonies themselves bear the stamp of a dateless antiquity; therefore we can hardly help ...

— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer

... progressive realization of himself, this development, he—so far as he is good— consciously conducts. And finally we found in the person the strange fact that he conceives of his good self as essentially in conjunction with his fellow man, and recognizes that parted off and in separate abstractness he is no person at all. Accordingly personal organization, direction, enlargement, conjunction. Under our analysis two antithetic worlds emerge, a world of nature and of spirit, the former guided by blind forces, the latter self-managed. Unlike spiritual ...

— The Nature of Goodness • George Herbert Palmer

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