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Abstractionist :: Abstractionist (n.) An idealist.

Number :: Number (n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.

#NAME? :: -ness () A suffix used to form abstract nouns expressive of quality or state; as, goodness, greatness..

Docket :: Docket (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed..

Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.

Synoptic :: Synopsis (n.) A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus..

Precisive :: Precisive (a.) Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction..

Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects..

Denominate :: Denominate (a.) Having a specific name or denomination; specified in the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or number. See Compound number, under Compound..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) An abstract term.

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word..

Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Abstract; abstruse; difficult.

Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

Staringly :: Stargasing (n.) Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction..

Concrete :: Concrete (a.) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3..

Concrete :: Concrete (a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract..

Doctrinaire :: Doctrinaire (n.) One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions..

Absently :: Absently (adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.

Muse :: Muse (n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study..

Syllepsis :: Syllabus (n.) A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract..

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