abstractum
English
Etymology
- Borrowing from Latin abstractum neuter of abstractus (“drawn away”).
- abstract + -um
Pronunciation
Noun
abstractum (plural abstracta)
- (philosophy, usually plural) Something which is abstract or exists abstractly. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
- 2008 August 5, Uriah Kriegel, “The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects”, Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, DOI:10.1007/s11098-008-9264-7:
- There are quite familiar and truly outstanding liabilities—ontological, epistemological, and phenomenological—associated with saying that merely intentional objects are abstracta, or mental concreta, or non-existent non-mental concreta.
- 2008 August 5, Uriah Kriegel, “The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects”, Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, DOI:10.1007/s11098-008-9264-7:
Coordinate terms
References
- ^ 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 10:
Latin
Adjective
abstractum
- nominative neuter singular of abstractus
- accusative masculine singular of abstractus
- accusative neuter singular of abstractus
- vocative neuter singular of abstractus