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Definition of Abstractedness
1. Noun. Preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else.
Generic synonyms: Absorption, Engrossment, Preoccupancy, Preoccupation
Specialized synonyms: Reverie, Revery
Derivative terms: Abstracted
Definition of Abstractedness
1. n. The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
Definition of Abstractedness
1. Noun. The state of being abstracted; abstract character. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abstractedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstractedness
Literary usage of Abstractedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Thomas Aquinas: A Dissertation of the Scholastic Philosophy of by Renn Dickson Hampden (1848)
"His Mental abstractedness. In the midst of these active labours, his mind, it is
said, was still incessantly engaged in religious contemplation, ..."
2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1882)
"But though this abstractedness, in so far as it means insensibility to the
proceedings of the outer world, and in so far as it is a more than normal descent ..."
3. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1872)
"Still it is possible to maintain a certain ideal abstractedness of treatment even
in literature which has its use. Every one feels the difference between ..."
4. History of the Disciples of Christ in Illinois, 1819-1914 by Nathaniel Smith Haynes (1915)
"His intense intellectuality, which often slid into the minor key of abstractedness,
led to many eccentricities, which were copied by us in the sincerest of ..."
5. Essays in Psychical Research by Ada Goodrich-Freer (1899)
"In both there is a strong sense-impression of abstractedness to which I have ...
(3) But things become more complex when this sense of abstractedness is ..."
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