abstractedness

Definition of abstractednessnext

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Noun
  • As with any addiction, people who stop smoking might experience cravings and withdrawals.
    Bautista Vivanco, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
  • This entails changing pretax funds to Roth money, which comes with an upfront tax bill but has the benefit of tax-free withdrawals in retirement.
    Jessica Dickler,Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Meis moves from the Baroque virtuosity of Rubens’s study of a drunken mythological figure, through the jagged modernist puzzle of Marc’s allegorical animals, to Mitchell’s painterly abstractions and their flickering landscape allusions.
    Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Seidle sketches out miniature worlds on his Casio with the oblong abstractions of a kindergartener doodling on a piece of paper, his primitive songs existing in a kind of nascent pre-genre state.
    Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • For example, Vermont legislators have introduced legislation requiring that tech products used in school be registered and certified with the Secretary of State to prove limited data collection and the absence of addictive algorithms.
    Abby McCloskey, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • And haunting is about distance, the presence of an absence.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In 2020, the 67-year-old French retiree had been happily married for nearly 50 years when she was informed by police that her husband, Dominique, had over the past decade repeatedly drugged her into unconsciousness, raped her, and videotaped scores of other men raping her as well.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Mercader slipped into unconsciousness twice, resurfacing to offer up more vague, contradictory claims that seemed scripted.
    Josh Ireland, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The initial photos or videos were ones of unawareness of what is about to go down.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • At the same time, Weinberger added, the greatest treatment obstacle is patients not taking their medications — sometimes due to anosognosia, the unawareness of being ill, which affects 50% to 98% of people with schizophrenia.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But for those who visit, the remoteness is part of the appeal.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The main hindrances then became the remoteness of the Moreton Bay district, the lack of understanding of the region in Sydney, and the consequent small number of settlers—no more than 2,000 in the mid-1840s.
    Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • There’s an implication early on that Pumpkin harbors her own secrets, but the portrait remains too blank to sell her detachment as a riddle worth solving.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Create a safe place to practice independence so that the inevitable detachment from you is not too difficult, suggests Miller.
    Sherri Gordon, Parents, 15 Mar. 2026
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“Abstractedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abstractedness. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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