abstractest

Adjective

abstract (comparative more abstract or abstracter, superlative most abstract or abstractest)

1. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
2. (archaic) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
   • The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.17th century, John Norris (philosopher), The Oxford Dictionary
3. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
   • Her new film is an abstract piece, combining elements of magic realism, flashbacks, and animation but with very little in terms of plot construction.

   Synonyms:

   conceptual, ideal, imaginary, incorporeal, intangible, nonempirical, theoretical

   Antonyms:

   actual, concrete, corporeal, empirical

   1. Insufficiently factual.
   2. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
      • During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy),[…]1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489
   3. As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.

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