Definition of Abstractedness

1. Noun. Preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else.

Exact synonyms: Abstraction
Generic synonyms: Absorption, Engrossment, Preoccupancy, Preoccupation
Specialized synonyms: Reverie, Revery
Derivative terms: Abstracted

Definition of Abstractedness

1. n. The state of being abstracted; abstract character.

Definition of Abstractedness

1. Noun. The state of being abstracted; abstract character. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abstractedness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstractedness

abstract numbers
abstract of title
abstract term
abstract terms
abstract thought
abstract type
abstract types
abstract universal
abstract universals
abstract verb
abstract verbs
abstracta
abstractable
abstracted
abstractedly
abstractedness (current term)
abstracter
abstracters
abstractest
abstracticism
abstractification
abstractified
abstractifies
abstractify
abstractifying
abstracting
abstracting and indexing
abstraction
abstractional
abstractionism

Literary usage of Abstractedness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Thomas Aquinas: A Dissertation of the Scholastic Philosophy of by Renn Dickson Hampden (1848)
"His Mental abstractedness. In the midst of these active labours, his mind, it is said, was still incessantly engaged in religious contemplation, ..."

2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1882)
"But though this abstractedness, in so far as it means insensibility to the proceedings of the outer world, and in so far as it is a more than normal descent ..."

3. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1872)
"Still it is possible to maintain a certain ideal abstractedness of treatment even in literature which has its use. Every one feels the difference between ..."

4. History of the Disciples of Christ in Illinois, 1819-1914 by Nathaniel Smith Haynes (1915)
"His intense intellectuality, which often slid into the minor key of abstractedness, led to many eccentricities, which were copied by us in the sincerest of ..."

5. Essays in Psychical Research by Ada Goodrich-Freer (1899)
"In both there is a strong sense-impression of abstractedness to which I have ... (3) But things become more complex when this sense of abstractedness is ..."

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