Search for crossword answers and clues
The quality of being considered apart from an specific instance or object
Answer for the clue "The quality of being considered apart from an specific instance or object ", 12 letters:
abstractness
Word definitions for abstractness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abstractness \Ab"stract`ness\, n. The quality of being abstract. ``The abstractness of the ideas.'' --Locke.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object [ant: concreteness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being abstract. (First attested in the late 16 th century.) (R:SOED5: page=10)
Usage examples of abstractness.
The trouble lies, then, not in abstractness or concreteness, but with the accountant who does not know how to balance his books.