abstractness

"But he had an acute sense of the underlying abstractness."

It may move science away from its traditional abstractness to the uniqueness found in natural history.

These are set off against the abstractness of 12-tone music, which Claude, try as he will, has difficulty understanding.

Is it the abstractness of the contemporary world that frightens us?

Johnson's lack of training gives his work an appealing abstractness, especially by today's standards.

He felt that Hegel's philosophy was limited because of its abstractness.

Titles aside, these women have a totemic power and abstractness.

However, this solution was imperfect as it lacked the original abstractness.

This metric is an indicator of the package's balance between abstractness and stability.

The abstractness of it, that's half the horror.

Maybe it was just fear of the unknown or the abstractness of it all.

Greenfield attempts to avoid this by claiming to test for 'abstractness'.

Greenfield found that the particular form used corresponded to the degree of what she calls 'abstractness'.

As if a peculiar and malign abstractness pervaded their mental processes.

The last aspect to examine is the abstractness of linguistic syntax and its correlate in music.

Participants rated the stimuli on their overall preference, abstractness, color properties, balance, and complexity.

While I found a great deal to admire in this book, a fair number of the poems stumble into a curious, often deadly abstractness.

At last, linguistic syntax is marked by abstractness.

Taylor was interested in anything that moved away from or subverted the linearity and abstractness of the conventional classroom.

Various attempts were made to substantiate the "abstract idea" test, which suffers from abstractness itself, but eventually none of them was successful.

His novels and short stories are characterized by their dreamy abstractness and romantic appeal.

A package squarely on the main sequence is optimally balanced with respect to its abstractness and stability.

The camera also zooms in on frogs' eyes and a turtle's shell and skin almost to the point of abstractness.

As a result, Russian icons have an incorporeality, an abstractness and an emphasis on color that are distinct to them.

Whether literary types are more prone to innumeracy or not, it's certain that the abstractness of mathematics is a great obstacle for many intelligent people.