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[ adjective ] taken out of or separated from
Synonyms Examples "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)In the Analytical phase of their Cubism , Braque and Picasso had not_only had to minimize three-dimensionality simply in_order to preserve it ; they had also had to generalize it - to the point , finally , where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as_such : as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself . If they opted_for illusion , it could only be illusion per_se - an illusion of depth , and of relief , so general and abstracted as to exclude the representation of individual objects . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] lost in thought; showing preoccupation
Synonyms Examples "an absent stare" "an absentminded professor" "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" Related terms |
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