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

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

Thus an abstractive set is effectively the entity meant when we consider an instant of time without temporal extension.

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

The importance of the equality of abstractive sets arises from the assumption that the intrinsic characters of the two sets are identical.

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

It is this character of being an absolute minimum which we want to get at and to express in terms of the extrinsic characters of the abstractive sets which make up a point.

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