Adjective

(en-adj)

(obsolete) Derived; extracted.

(now, rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.

* 17th century , , The Oxford Dictionary :

The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.

Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.

Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general, as opposed to specific.

* - A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract' name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "' abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes.

Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.

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(archaic) Absent-minded.

* Milton

abstract , as in a trance

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(arts) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.

# (arts, often, capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20^th century.

# (music) Absolute.

# (dance) Lacking a story.

Insufficiently factual.

Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

(grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.

(computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

Adjective

(en-adj)

True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

* 2007 , Jim Kokoris, The Rich Part of Life: A Novel (ISBN 1429976438), page 179:

[T]he real reason he didn't come was because he was scared of flying[.]

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, title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.

* {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

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Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.

* Milton:

Whose perfection far excelled / Hers in all real dignity.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

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Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.

a description of real life

* Milton:

I waked, and found / Before mine eyes all real , as the dream / Had lively shadowed.

That has objective, physical existence.

(economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power .

(economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.

(mathematics, of a number) Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.

(legal) Relating to immovable tangible property.

* Francis Bacon

Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.

Absolute, complete, utter.

(slang)