abstractive

American  

[ab-strak-tiv] / æbˈstræk tɪv /

adjective

1. having the power of abstracting.

2. pertaining to an abstract or summary.

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Other Word Forms

• abstractively adverb
• abstractiveness noun
• unabstractive adjective
• unabstractively adverb

Etymology

Origin of abstractive

From the Medieval Latin word abstractīvus, dating back to 1480–90. See abstract, -ive

Example Sentences

Momental areas can evidently be defined as abstractive elements by exactly the same method as applied to solids.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

We have no intuitive insight into their natures; all our knowledge here is abstractive and discursive.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Each moment is a group of abstractive sets, and the events which are members of these sets are all members of one family of durations.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

The locus of event-particles covered by the station of P in d as an abstractive element is the station of P in d as a locus.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

Then the group of σ-primes, where σ has this meaning, is an abstractive element and is the station of P in d as an abstractive element.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North