abstractness

English edit

Etymology edit

abstract +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation edit

(US) IPA^(key): /æbˈstɹæk.nəs/, /æbˈstɹækt.nəs/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun edit

abstractness (countable and uncountable, plural abstractnesses)

The quality of being abstract. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]^[1]
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
  The abstractness of the ideas.

Antonyms edit

concreteness

Translations edit

the quality of being abstract

Danish: abstrakthed c
Dutch: abstractheid (nl) f, het abstracte n
Esperanto: abstrakteco
Finnish: abstraktius (fi)
Hungarian: elvontság (hu), absztraktság (hu)
Latvian: abstraktums m
Norwegian:
Norwegian Bokmål: abstrakthet (no) m or f
Polish: abstrakcyjność (pl) f
Portuguese: abstratidade f

References edit

^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstractness”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

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