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

This additional notion is obtained by distinguishing between the notion of ‘position’ and the notion of convergence to an ideal zero of extension as exhibited by an abstractive set of events.

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

The intrinsic character of an event-particle is indivisible in the sense that every abstractive set covered by it exhibits the same intrinsic character.

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

To-day it is no longer difficult to understand how the divine ideas were born, how they were created in succession by the abstractive faculty of man.

From God and the State by Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich

Thus an event-particle is an abstractive element and as such is a group of abstractive sets; and a point—namely a point of timeless space—will be a class of event-particles.

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

Thus an instantaneous space is the assemblage of abstractive elements covered by some one moment, and it is the instantaneous space of that moment.

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