ABSTRACTNESS

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 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

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)