Definitions
existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
Word origin
From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.
Used in a sentence
“An analysis and abstract of every treatise he had read.”
“Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.”
“Thus the concrete like has its abstract likeness; the concretes, father and son, have the abstracts, paternity and filiation.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Conceptual”8 letters
02“Not concrete”8 letters
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