What is the difference between reality and abstract?
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The state of being actual or real.
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*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
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, title= A real entity, event or other fact.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:And to realities yield all her shows.
*(James Beattie) (1735-1803)
*:My neck may be an idea to you, but it is reality to me.
The entirety of all that is real.
An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
(lb) Loyalty; devotion.
*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:To express our reality to the emperor.
Realty; real estate.
An abridgement or summary.
* — An abstract of every treatise he had read.
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of larger item, or multiple items.
* — Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.
# Concentrated essence of a product.
# (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
An abstraction; an term; that which is abstract.
* — The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety".
The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
(arts) An abstract work of art.
(real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
(obsolete) Derived; extracted.
(now, rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
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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.
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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 20th 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.
To separate; to disengage.
* - He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
To remove; to take away; withdraw.
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* Sir Walter Scott
(euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
* - Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
(obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
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To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
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(intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
To draw off (interest or attention).
* , Blackwood's Magazine - The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
(rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
* - I own myself able to abstract in one sense.
(fine arts) To create abstractions.
(computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
In obsolete terms the difference between reality and abstract
is that reality is loyalty; devotion while abstract is derived; extracted.As nouns the difference between reality and abstract
is that reality is the state of being actual or real while abstract is an abridgement or summary.As an adjective abstract is
derived; extracted.As a verb abstract is
to separate; to disengage.reality
English
Noun
(en-noun)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality : we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today
Synonyms
* actuality * real worldDerived terms
* reality check * reality show * reality television * virtual realitySee also
* taoAnagrams
* irately ----abstract
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) abstractus, perfect passive participle of .Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* (theoretical way of looking at things) Preceded, typically, by the .Synonyms
* (statement summarizing the important points of a text) abridgment, compendium, epitome, synopsisDerived terms
* abstract of titleAdjective
(en-adj)- The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.
- abstract , as in a trance
Synonyms
* (not applied or practical) conceptual, theoretical * (insufficiently factual) formal * (difficult to understand) abstruseAntonyms
* (not applied or practical) applied, practical * (considered apart from concrete existence) concreteDerived terms
* abstractly * abstractness * abstract idea * abstract noun * abstract numbers * abstract termsSee also
* reifyEtymology 2
First attested in 1542. Partly from' English abstract (adjective form), ' and from (etyl) abstrat past participle of .Verb
(en verb)- He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
- (Franklin)
- He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- He abstracted out the square root function.