abstractness
Americannoun
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The poster’s striking abstractness is akin to Marmatakis’ earlier one-sheets for Lanthimos, which obliquely hint at his movies’ thorny thematic elements without spelling out the plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
We all value precision in claims as compared to vagueness and concreteness as compared to abstractness.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2023
The intimate realism of “Clam and Mussel,” two nestling shells, contrasts with the spacious abstractness of “Pool in the Woods, Lake George,” an imagined bird’s-eye view of woods and hills with a blue-black center.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2017
This quality of purposeful abstractness makes everything sound and seem contrived.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2015
The errors, then, lie not in the abstractness or concreteness, not in geometry or physics, but in a calculator who does not know how to make a true accounting.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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