abstractionistn.adj.

Brit.

/əbˈstrakʃn̩ɪst/,

/əbˈstrakʃənɪst/, U.S.

/əbˈstrækʃənəst/,

/æbˈstrækʃənəst/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: abstraction n., -ist suffix.

Etymology: < abstraction n. + -ist suffix. Compare slightly later abstractionism n.

A. n.

a. A person who prefers to view, analyse, and discuss the world in abstract rather than practical terms; a thinker who gives precedence to abstract ideas and concepts over concrete and particular ones.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [noun] > separating of ideas > one who pursues

abstractionist1832

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > [noun] > one who or that which idealizes

idealist1805

ideologue1815

ideologist1818

idealizer1821

abstractionist1832

the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > abstractness > abstraction > one who occupies himself with

abstractionist1832

1832 Christian Examiner & Church of Ireland Mag. Nov. 762 The son was no abstractionist; though acute, able, clever,..he delighted not in extensive reading, and would rather shine as a gentleman than as a scholar.

1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. viii. 158 She [sc. Nature] punishes abstractionists.

1897 Science 19 Feb. 288/1 His severity in this line was a living rebuke to all abstractionists and would-be biological philosophers.

1945 A. A. Luce Berkeley's Immaterialism ii. 32 Abstractionists are inveterately disposed to think that matter exists.

1963 Christian Sci. Jrnl. Feb. 70/1 The Master was no idle theoretician or impractical abstractionist.

1998 Philosophy 73 414 What, on the order of definition by genus and species (the favourite model of abstractionists), is on offer here?

b. U.S. Politics (chiefly depreciative). A doctrinaire supporter or advocate of states' rights, typically from one of the Southern states. Frequently in Virginia abstractionist. Now historical.Frequently with deliberate connotation of sense A. 1c.

ΚΠ

1841 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 6 Apr. If to oppose a high tariff, internal improvements, and a splendid and extravagant Government..is an abstraction, then, for one, I glory in being a Virginia abstractionist.

1841 Virginia Free Press 9 Sept. To us the Abstractionists are amusing characters. We like to contemplate the air of confidence with which they vaunt their absurdities.

1847 Littell's Living Age 16 Oct. 141/1 The South Carolina abstractionists are indignant.

1860 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 8 May He is regarded as a kind of champion of Southern rights against Northern attacks... Some few ultra abstractionists may oppose him, principle. But they will be borne down by the popular torrent.

1943 H. Wish George Fitzhugh xviii. 292 For the Southern abstractionists who argued over doctrines of political sovereignty, he expressed his contempt, insisting that the states were already nations in fact.

1990 W. W. Freehling Road to Disunion I. xxii. 393 Precisely Upshur's combination of zeal for principle and passion for evidence made him seem to the somewhat theoretical, somewhat practical Tyler the right pragmatic abstractionist.

c. U.S. depreciative. An impractical dreamer; an idealist. Now usually as merged into uses of sense A. 1a with a depreciative connotation (cf. quot. 1963 at sense A. 1a).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > fanciful person

dreamera1425

fantast1588

fantastical1589

fantastic1598

maggot-monger1607

Sabine1610

maggot-patea1640

wham1691

whim1712

visionarya1719

imaginariana1729

ideologue1815

ideologist1818

fancier1828

idealist1829

abstractionist1844

phantasist1864

dreamsmith1873

luftmensch1902

cuckoo-lander1916

fantasist1923

pie-in-the-skyer1973

1844 Liberator (Boston) 19 July 116/3 However much visionary abstractionists may denounce me.

1856 New Church Herald Dec. 647 Not merely a few dreaming abstractionists,—a few spiritual Quixottes,..but a large and imposing body of sound, intelligent, and devout men were unanimous in their sentiments on this point.

1863 B. Taylor Hannah Thurston I. 37 ‘And your fanatical abstractionists never look at anything in a practical way!’ rejoined the Hon. Zeno.

1876 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 1 Jan. Jefferson was no crazy abstractionist. He carried no Utopian dreams into politics.

1958 Sports Cars Illustr. Mar. 48/1 He never was in danger of developing into a dreaming abstractionist. On the contrary, his feet stayed firmly planted on the ground.

1968 R. Foster Norman Mailer 38 A perfect illustration of the penalties which in the natural scheme of things are levied against unrepentant abstractionists who sin, through violence or neglect, against the actual.

2. An advocate or practitioner of abstraction in the arts, esp. a painter in the abstract style.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > abstractionism > artist

abstractionist1917

non-objectivist1946

1917 Arts & Decoration Mar. 257/1 To duplicate life..is the best that art can do..despite wails of abstractionists who would have us out of it and in the rare ether of their own spiritual Edens.

1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations iv. 184 The pure abstractionist will come forward with a question. Seeing that the non-representational passages in representational works are so expressive, why should anyone bother with representation?

1968 Collier's Encycl. Year Bk. 131 Max Ernst, the well-known dada and surrealist painter; Edouard Pignon, a French abstractionist; and the late René Magritte, the extraordinary Belgian surrealist.

2002 2001 Rev. (Ann. Rep. National Art Coll. Fund) 68/3 The play of planes makes a carefully calculated composition—an implicit challenge to the abstractionists of his generation.

B. adj.

Characterized by or given to abstraction.In quot. 1860: idealistic, impractical (cf. sense A. 1c).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [adjective] > performing abstraction

abstractive1610

precisive1650

abstractionist1860

1860 M. H. Schoolcraft Black Gauntlet x. 219 There are abstractionist fools that tell us, in the face of ethnology, and history, and common sense, that ‘all men are born free and equal’.

1930 Time & Tide 24 May 670/1 Shall I sum up my criticism of Lady Rhondda's attitude..by calling it too ‘abstractionist’?

1947 Life 28 July 64 Morris Davidson encourages abstractionist ideas.

2005 Humanitas (Nexis) 22 Mar. 31 Eric Voegelin provides a much needed counterweight to the abstractionist intellectual trend that affects even a thinker like Weaver.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	abstractionist
释义	abstractionistn.adj. Brit. /əbˈstrakʃn̩ɪst/, /əbˈstrakʃənɪst/, U.S. /əbˈstrækʃənəst/, /æbˈstrækʃənəst/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: abstraction n., -ist suffix. Etymology: < abstraction n. + -ist suffix. Compare slightly later abstractionism n. A. n. 1. a. A person who prefers to view, analyse, and discuss the world in abstract rather than practical terms; a thinker who gives precedence to abstract ideas and concepts over concrete and particular ones. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [noun] > separating of ideas > one who pursues abstractionist1832 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > [noun] > one who or that which idealizes idealist1805 ideologue1815 ideologist1818 idealizer1821 abstractionist1832 the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > abstractness > abstraction > one who occupies himself with abstractionist1832 1832 Christian Examiner & Church of Ireland Mag. Nov. 762 The son was no abstractionist; though acute, able, clever,..he delighted not in extensive reading, and would rather shine as a gentleman than as a scholar. 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. viii. 158 She [sc. Nature] punishes abstractionists. 1897 Science 19 Feb. 288/1 His severity in this line was a living rebuke to all abstractionists and would-be biological philosophers. 1945 A. A. Luce Berkeley's Immaterialism ii. 32 Abstractionists are inveterately disposed to think that matter exists. 1963 Christian Sci. Jrnl. Feb. 70/1 The Master was no idle theoretician or impractical abstractionist. 1998 Philosophy 73 414 What, on the order of definition by genus and species (the favourite model of abstractionists), is on offer here? b. U.S. Politics (chiefly depreciative). A doctrinaire supporter or advocate of states' rights, typically from one of the Southern states. Frequently in Virginia abstractionist. Now historical.Frequently with deliberate connotation of sense A. 1c. ΚΠ 1841 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 6 Apr. If to oppose a high tariff, internal improvements, and a splendid and extravagant Government..is an abstraction, then, for one, I glory in being a Virginia abstractionist. 1841 Virginia Free Press 9 Sept. To us the Abstractionists are amusing characters. We like to contemplate the air of confidence with which they vaunt their absurdities. 1847 Littell's Living Age 16 Oct. 141/1 The South Carolina abstractionists are indignant. 1860 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 8 May He is regarded as a kind of champion of Southern rights against Northern attacks... Some few ultra abstractionists may oppose him, principle. But they will be borne down by the popular torrent. 1943 H. Wish George Fitzhugh xviii. 292 For the Southern abstractionists who argued over doctrines of political sovereignty, he expressed his contempt, insisting that the states were already nations in fact. 1990 W. W. Freehling Road to Disunion I. xxii. 393 Precisely Upshur's combination of zeal for principle and passion for evidence made him seem to the somewhat theoretical, somewhat practical Tyler the right pragmatic abstractionist. c. U.S. depreciative. An impractical dreamer; an idealist. Now usually as merged into uses of sense A. 1a with a depreciative connotation (cf. quot. 1963 at sense A. 1a). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > fanciful person dreamera1425 fantast1588 fantastical1589 fantastic1598 maggot-monger1607 Sabine1610 maggot-patea1640 wham1691 whim1712 visionarya1719 imaginariana1729 ideologue1815 ideologist1818 fancier1828 idealist1829 abstractionist1844 phantasist1864 dreamsmith1873 luftmensch1902 cuckoo-lander1916 fantasist1923 pie-in-the-skyer1973 1844 Liberator (Boston) 19 July 116/3 However much visionary abstractionists may denounce me. 1856 New Church Herald Dec. 647 Not merely a few dreaming abstractionists,—a few spiritual Quixottes,..but a large and imposing body of sound, intelligent, and devout men were unanimous in their sentiments on this point. 1863 B. Taylor Hannah Thurston I. 37 ‘And your fanatical abstractionists never look at anything in a practical way!’ rejoined the Hon. Zeno. 1876 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 1 Jan. Jefferson was no crazy abstractionist. He carried no Utopian dreams into politics. 1958 Sports Cars Illustr. Mar. 48/1 He never was in danger of developing into a dreaming abstractionist. On the contrary, his feet stayed firmly planted on the ground. 1968 R. Foster Norman Mailer 38 A perfect illustration of the penalties which in the natural scheme of things are levied against unrepentant abstractionists who sin, through violence or neglect, against the actual. 2. An advocate or practitioner of abstraction in the arts, esp. a painter in the abstract style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > abstractionism > artist abstractionist1917 non-objectivist1946 1917 Arts & Decoration Mar. 257/1 To duplicate life..is the best that art can do..despite wails of abstractionists who would have us out of it and in the rare ether of their own spiritual Edens. 1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations iv. 184 The pure abstractionist will come forward with a question. Seeing that the non-representational passages in representational works are so expressive, why should anyone bother with representation? 1968 Collier's Encycl. Year Bk. 131 Max Ernst, the well-known dada and surrealist painter; Edouard Pignon, a French abstractionist; and the late René Magritte, the extraordinary Belgian surrealist. 2002 2001 Rev. (Ann. Rep. National Art Coll. Fund) 68/3 The play of planes makes a carefully calculated composition—an implicit challenge to the abstractionists of his generation. B. adj. Characterized by or given to abstraction.In quot. 1860: idealistic, impractical (cf. sense A. 1c). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [adjective] > performing abstraction abstractive1610 precisive1650 abstractionist1860 1860 M. H. Schoolcraft Black Gauntlet x. 219 There are abstractionist fools that tell us, in the face of ethnology, and history, and common sense, that ‘all men are born free and equal’. 1930 Time & Tide 24 May 670/1 Shall I sum up my criticism of Lady Rhondda's attitude..by calling it too ‘abstractionist’? 1947 Life 28 July 64 Morris Davidson encourages abstractionist ideas. 2005 Humanitas (Nexis) 22 Mar. 31 Eric Voegelin provides a much needed counterweight to the abstractionist intellectual trend that affects even a thinker like Weaver. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1832
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