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Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction..

Detachment :: Detachment (n.) Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.

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

Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.

Literalism :: Literalism (n.) The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization..

Abstractional :: Abstractional (a.) Pertaining to abstraction.

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, reptile is an abstract or general name..

Anhydride :: Anhydride (n.) An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water..

Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.

Freeze :: Freeze (v. t.) To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat..

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..

Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal..

Freeze :: Freeze (v. i.) To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

Defiliation :: Defiliation (n.) Abstraction of a child from its parents.

Abstract :: Abstract (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.

#NAME? :: -ion () A noun suffix denoting act, process, result of an act or a process, thing acted upon, state, or condition; as, revolution, the act or process of revolving; construction, the act or process of constructing; a thing constructed; dominion, territory ruled over; subjection, state of being subject; dejection; abstraction..

Self-involution :: Self-involution (n.) Involution in one's self; hence, abstraction of thought; reverie..

Abstractionist :: Abstractionist (n.) An idealist.

Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.

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..

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