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List of antonyms from "abstainer" to antonyms from "abundance"


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Definition of the day : « abstraction »

  • noun state of being lost in thought
Example sentences :
  • When Lester returned, he saw her standing by his desk, lost in an abstraction of grief.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • The latter was a curious example of what I have described as abstraction of color.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • And the great aim of education is the cultivation of the habit of abstraction.
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • This abstraction is the far-off heaven on which the eye of the mind is fixed in fond amazement.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
  • Another says, 'No, not fire in the abstract, but the abstraction of heat in the fire.'
  • Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
  • He sighed and lapsed into one of his long fits of abstraction.
  • Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • "But I shall not excuse you, Caron," she said, refusing to see his abstraction.
  • Extract from : « The Trampling of the Lilies » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The purely human reality is capable of lyrism but not of abstraction.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
  • He was less gay, less confident of manner, and he often fell into fits of abstraction.
  • Extract from : « They of the High Trails » by Hamlin Garland
  • The mechanical voice, the words themselves, his air of abstraction appalled her.
  • Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad