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Definition of Semi-abstraction
1. Noun. A semiabstract painting.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semi-abstraction
Literary usage of Semi-abstraction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Choosing Employees by Mental and Physical Tests by William Fretz Kemble (1917)
"The word trust is a vague, horrible semi-abstraction to most people. Belief in
such chaotic abstractions has cost us untold misery in the disasters ..."
2. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1855)
"jokes and witticisms, making the whole house ring with merriment—after which he
would subside again into his wonted semi-abstraction, and gentle, ..."
3. Rome, and Its Surrounding Scenery by Henry Noel Humphreys (1840)
"... I remained wandering to and fro in a very pleasing state of semi-abstraction.
Even then, I descended the sloping terraces slowly and reluctantly to the ..."
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