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abstractedness|æbˈstræktɪdnɪs| [f. abstracted + -ness.] The state of being abstracted or withdrawn. Hence, †1. = abstractness. Obs.
1665Glanville Scepsis Scient. 63 It was not only the abstractedness of the matter, that rendered Aristotle's physiology so difficult of comprehension. †2. Withdrawal of self, disinterestedness. Obs.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. xx. 148 Your abstractedness, child, savours, let me tell you, of greater particularity, than what we aim to carry. 3. Withdrawal from the contemplation of present things; absence (of mind).
1705Stanhope Paraphr. III. 209 Not that we are to like or love nothing but Him; for of such Abstractedness our Condition is not capable. 1844Phillips Mem. of Smith 109 A certain abstractedness of mind..continually broke the symmetry of Mr. Smith's lectures. 4. Ideality.
1878Dowden Studies 425 He..can value the abstractedness, the aspiration, the Druidic nature-worship of Laprade. |