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adj
- of or as conceived by existentialism
- Of or relating to existentialism (“a philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices”).
- relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
- derived from experience or the experience of existence
- Of or relating to existence.
- (linguistics) Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence (for example, there is).
- Concerning the very existence of something, especially with regard to evading extinction.
- Of an assertion, etc.: assuming or suggesting the existence of something.
noun
noun
- (philosophy, existentialism, Kierkegaardianism) Personal despair over the disquieting circumstances of human existence.
- (by extension) Despair, profound discontent, or a similar persistent debilitating malaise of the mind, spirit, or soul that produces a decline in mental, physical, or societal health and that may culminate in death or dissolution.
noun
- (countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
- (uncountable) A 20th-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
- (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
noun
- an iconic mental representation
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a standard or typical example
- the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
- A statue or idol.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to.
- A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
- A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
- (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
verb
noun
- a mental representation
- outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
- pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
- formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action
- the act of appearing in public view
- the event of coming into sight
- (medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
- The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
- (philosophy, theology) That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality
- A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
- (law) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
- The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
- The way something looks; personal presence
- Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.
verb
- To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
- (British) Would like; have a desire for.
- (transitive) To breed (animals) as a hobby.
- (British, informal) To be sexually, aesthetically or romantically attracted to.
- To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
- (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
adj
adv
noun
- A bite-sized sponge cake, with a layer of cream, covered in icing.
- A diamond with a distinctive colour.
- The object of inclination or liking.
- The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
- Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
- In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
- Love or amorous attachment.
- An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
- An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
- A whim.
- That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
- The imagination.
- a predisposition to like something
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
noun
- (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine
- emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness
- representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
- Alternative spelling of depersonalization.
noun
- (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine
- emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness
- representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
- The act of depersonalizing or the state of being depersonalized.
- (psychiatry) A feeling of being unreal, detached or unable to feel emotion.
- (psychology) The loss of one's sense of personal identity.
noun
- (figurative) A conceptual model of someone's worldview.
- A clockwork model of any given solar system.
- planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork; sometimes incorporated in a clock
verb
- construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
- (transitive) To render into, or regard as, a separate and distinct substance; to construe a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept as a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character.
- (transitive) To attribute actual or personal existence to.
noun
- the state of existing in reality; having substance
- minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting
- a means of surviving
- Real being; existence.
- Inherency.
- (theology) Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.
- Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
- The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
noun
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- (computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
- (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- an abstract painting
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
noun
- The state of being incarnated.
- An incarnate being or form.
- A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
- A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
- The act of incarnating.
- An assumption of human form or nature.
- A version or iteration (of something).
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- time passed in a particular bodily form
- a new personification of a familiar idea
adj
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
noun
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
verb
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
verb
- perceive the true nature of
- remain with until completion
- support financially through a period of time
- (transitive, idiomatic) To not be deceived by something that is false or misleading; to understand the hidden truth about someone or something.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To constitute ample supply for one for.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To do something until it is finished; to continue working on (something) until it is finished.
- (transitive) To perceive visually through something transparent.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To provide support or cooperation to (a person) throughout a period of time; to support someone through a difficult time.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To recognize someone's true motives or character.
noun
- the human embodiment of something
- the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
- deep feeling or emotion
- a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
- a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
- Life, energy, vigor.
- A strong positive feeling of intense sensitivity and emotional fervor conveyed especially by African American performers.
- An individual life.
- (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.
- Cultural consciousness and pride among people of African American heritage.
- (music) Soul music.
- The spirit or essence of anything.
- (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
- A person, especially as one among many.
adj
verb
noun
adj
name
noun
- an erroneous mental representation
- something many people believe that is false
- the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.
- (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
- (countable) A magician’s trick.
- (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
noun
- an erroneous mental representation
- picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- (countable, always in the negative) Followed by of: a bare or mere appearance of something.
- Followed by of: the outward appearance of a person or thing which is different from what the person or thing actually is; also, an outward appearance of a thing which does not actually exist.
- (countable) A person's non-verbal behaviour or demeanour which shows their feelings, thoughts, etc., or which is faked to hide such true feelings, thoughts, etc.
- (countable) The outward appearance or form of a person or thing.
- (countable) Followed by of: a person or thing that looks similar to another person or thing; a likeness.
- Followed by of: the outward appearance of a person or thing when regarded as similar to that of another person or thing.
- (countable) Followed by of: a person or thing that is seen; an apparition, a vision.
noun
- An idea depicted as an entity.
- (mythology) A minor deity or divinity.
- (computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
- A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish.
- (Commonwealth, uncommon) Alternative spelling of demon.
- a person who is part mortal and part god
- an evil supernatural being
noun
- (philosophy, existentialism, Kierkegaardianism) Personal despair over the disquieting circumstances of human existence.
- (by extension) Despair, profound discontent, or a similar persistent debilitating malaise of the mind, spirit, or soul that produces a decline in mental, physical, or societal health and that may culminate in death or dissolution.
noun
- (countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
- (uncountable) A 20th-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
- (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
noun
- an iconic mental representation
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a standard or typical example
- the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
- A statue or idol.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to.
- A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
- A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
- (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
verb
noun
- a mental representation
- outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
- pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
- formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action
- the act of appearing in public view
- the event of coming into sight
- (medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
- The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
- (philosophy, theology) That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality
- A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
- (law) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
- The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
- The way something looks; personal presence
- Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.
noun
- (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine
- emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness
- representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
- Alternative spelling of depersonalization.
noun
- (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine
- emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness
- representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
- The act of depersonalizing or the state of being depersonalized.
- (psychiatry) A feeling of being unreal, detached or unable to feel emotion.
- (psychology) The loss of one's sense of personal identity.
noun
- (figurative) A conceptual model of someone's worldview.
- A clockwork model of any given solar system.
- planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork; sometimes incorporated in a clock
noun
- the state of existing in reality; having substance
- minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting
- a means of surviving
- Real being; existence.
- Inherency.
- (theology) Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.
- Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
- The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
noun
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- (computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
- (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- an abstract painting
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
noun
- The state of being incarnated.
- An incarnate being or form.
- A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
- A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
- The act of incarnating.
- An assumption of human form or nature.
- A version or iteration (of something).
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- time passed in a particular bodily form
- a new personification of a familiar idea
adj
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
noun
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
verb
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
noun
- the human embodiment of something
- the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
- deep feeling or emotion
- a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
- a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
- Life, energy, vigor.
- A strong positive feeling of intense sensitivity and emotional fervor conveyed especially by African American performers.
- An individual life.
- (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.
- Cultural consciousness and pride among people of African American heritage.
- (music) Soul music.
- The spirit or essence of anything.
- (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
- A person, especially as one among many.
adj
verb
noun
adj
name
noun
- an erroneous mental representation
- something many people believe that is false
- the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.
- (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
- (countable) A magician’s trick.
- (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
noun
- an erroneous mental representation
- picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- (countable, always in the negative) Followed by of: a bare or mere appearance of something.
- Followed by of: the outward appearance of a person or thing which is different from what the person or thing actually is; also, an outward appearance of a thing which does not actually exist.
- (countable) A person's non-verbal behaviour or demeanour which shows their feelings, thoughts, etc., or which is faked to hide such true feelings, thoughts, etc.
- (countable) The outward appearance or form of a person or thing.
- (countable) Followed by of: a person or thing that looks similar to another person or thing; a likeness.
- Followed by of: the outward appearance of a person or thing when regarded as similar to that of another person or thing.
- (countable) Followed by of: a person or thing that is seen; an apparition, a vision.
noun
- An idea depicted as an entity.
- (mythology) A minor deity or divinity.
- (computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
- A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish.
- (Commonwealth, uncommon) Alternative spelling of demon.
- a person who is part mortal and part god
- an evil supernatural being
verb
- To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
- (British) Would like; have a desire for.
- (transitive) To breed (animals) as a hobby.
- (British, informal) To be sexually, aesthetically or romantically attracted to.
- To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
- (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
adj
adv
noun
- A bite-sized sponge cake, with a layer of cream, covered in icing.
- A diamond with a distinctive colour.
- The object of inclination or liking.
- The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
- Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
- In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
- Love or amorous attachment.
- An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
- An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
- A whim.
- That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
- The imagination.
- a predisposition to like something
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
verb
- construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
- (transitive) To render into, or regard as, a separate and distinct substance; to construe a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept as a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character.
- (transitive) To attribute actual or personal existence to.
verb
- perceive the true nature of
- remain with until completion
- support financially through a period of time
- (transitive, idiomatic) To not be deceived by something that is false or misleading; to understand the hidden truth about someone or something.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To constitute ample supply for one for.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To do something until it is finished; to continue working on (something) until it is finished.
- (transitive) To perceive visually through something transparent.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To provide support or cooperation to (a person) throughout a period of time; to support someone through a difficult time.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To recognize someone's true motives or character.
adj
- of or as conceived by existentialism
- Of or relating to existentialism (“a philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices”).
- relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
- derived from experience or the experience of existence
- Of or relating to existence.
- (linguistics) Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence (for example, there is).
- Concerning the very existence of something, especially with regard to evading extinction.
- Of an assertion, etc.: assuming or suggesting the existence of something.
noun
adj
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
noun
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
verb
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.