abstractive

American  

[ab-strak-tiv] / æbˈstræk tɪv /

adjective

1. having the power of abstracting.

2. pertaining to an abstract or summary.

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Other Word Forms

• abstractively adverb
• abstractiveness noun
• unabstractive adjective
• unabstractively adverb

Etymology

Origin of abstractive

From the Medieval Latin word abstractīvus, dating back to 1480–90. See abstract, -ive

Example Sentences

Thus an instantaneous space is the assemblage of abstractive elements covered by some one moment, and it is the instantaneous space of that moment.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

There are also the correlative abstractive sets which I call the sets of σ-antiprimes.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

Let σ be the name of any condition which some abstractive sets fulfil.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

The importance of the equality of abstractive sets arises from the assumption that the intrinsic characters of the two sets are identical.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

To-day it is no longer difficult to understand how the divine ideas were born, how they were created in succession by the abstractive faculty of man.

From God and the State by Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich