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ABSTRACTNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does abstractness mean?

• ABSTRACTNESS (noun)
The noun ABSTRACTNESS has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: ABSTRACTNESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ABSTRACTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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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))

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