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as in: abstract thought Define
of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
or more rarely:
describing someone as distracted -- thinking about something outside of the immediate conversation or circumstances
- If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily, and say: "Where’s Tom gone?" and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door.
- "It was — simply amazing," she repeated abstractedly.
- Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant, whereupon Mr. Wolfshiem swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory abstraction.
- We all agree that we want what’s "best for the country", but that is an abstract concept and we cannot agree on which specific laws should be passed.
- She struggles with abstract reasoning.
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as in: abstract thought Define
of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
or more rarely:
describing someone as distracted -- thinking about something outside of the immediate conversation or circumstances
as in: read the abstract
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a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing
as in: abstract art
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not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
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