abstractedness
IPA: ˈæbstræktɪdnʌs
noun
- The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
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Examples of "abstractedness" in Sentences
- They entered this state of abstractedness unconsciously.
- Both Dessners have been at pains to explain the non-linear abstractedness of the work in recent interviews.
- Raymond looked at these objects of interest -- and at several others -- with some degree of abstractedness.
- -- Alonzo was, in some degree, aroused from his abstractedness; -- the manners of the stranger pleased him.
- Holding the glass in one hand, he walked around the little apartment, checking everything with a sort of automatic abstractedness.
- What I do begrudge is the abstractedness from human vulnerability of Bush's so-called warrior intellectuals, who have conceptualized a first strike
- Your abstractedness, child, (affectation of abstractedness, some call it,) savours, let me tell you, of greater particularity, than we aim to carry.
- This evening Vautrin had noticed Eugènes abstractedness, and stayed in the room, though he had seemed to be in a hurry to finish his dinner and go.
- Martha and insisted on the duty of heavenly abstractedness, how much of his own leisure for spiritual contemplation was due to the Martha-like talents of his hostess.
- But Mrs. Fisher's very abstractedness – and she seemed to be absorbed chiefly in the interesting people she used to know and in their memorial photographs, and quite a good part of the interview was taken up by reminiscent anecdote of Carlyle, Meredith, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson, and a host of others – her very abstractedness was a recommendation.