abstractibleadj.
/əbˈstraktᵻbl/, U.S. /əbˈstræktəb(ə)l/, /æbˈstræktəb(ə)l/ = abstractable adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [adjective] > performing abstraction > able to be abstracted
abstractible1814
abstractable1815
1814 Philos. Mag. 44 341 This natural proportion is really an affirmative and abstractible quantity.
1943 A. M. Farrer Finite & Infinite viii. 94 The only common properly abstractible form is that of mere numerability.
1992 A. O. Rorty in M. C. Nussbaum & A. O. Rorty Ess. on Aristotle's De Anima i. 11 Or is it separable in the way that geometrical properties are separable, abstractible from bodies without being capable of existing separately?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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