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abstractive
[ ab-strak-tiv ]
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Other Words From
- ab·stractive·ly adverb
- ab·stractive·ness noun
- unab·stractive adjective
- unab·stractive·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of abstractive1
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Example Sentences
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.
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We have no intuitive insight into their natures; all our knowledge here is abstractive and discursive.
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Two abstractive sets may each cover the other.
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As an instinctive he is below the level; as an abstractive he attains it; as a specialist he rises above it.
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When there is no danger of misunderstanding I shall shorten this phrase by simply saying that the two abstractive sets are ‘equal.’
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