2. Adjective. Able to be made abstract. ¹
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Definition of Abstractable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstractable
Literary usage of Abstractable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Economy of Happiness by James MacKaye (1906)
"In such a case, pain is clearly abstractable from elements of experience with
which it ... Pleasures are probably more frequently abstractable than pains, ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... this actually represents 7.3% of the abstractable hydrogen atoms. The atom
ratio of hydrogen to deuterium is therefore multiplied by 0.927 to correct ..."
3. Collected Essays and Reviews by William James (1920)
"But I say that there must be some things whose resemblance is not based on such
discernible and abstractable identity. Now, the identity on which Mr. ..."
4. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"XII), he seems to me to have hit the truth much better, when he says that the
aspect color, tg, in a concrete sensation of rtd, is not an abstractable part ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"... contains seven papers including a detailed description, with charts, of the
Atolls and Banks— a valuable contribution to geography but not abstractable. ..."
6. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1907)
"The question, "What is the meaning and value of anything and everything for any
abstractable phase or product of life whatsoever? ..."
7. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1879)
"The sense of beauty or of any definite characteristic in the quality of notes is
abstractable with such curious completeness iu the silent realisation of ..."
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