abstract quality

collocation in English

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abstract
adjective
uk
/ˈæb.strækt/us
/ˈæb.strækt/
existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a ...
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quality
noun
uk
/ˈkwɒl.ə.ti/us
/ˈkwɑː.lə.t̬i/
how good or bad ...
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(Definition ofabstractandqualityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The concept is explicit as anabstractqualityof human experience mediating between the material world and the humanly perceived sensory world.
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Theabstractqualityof musical forms attracts the author for similar reasons.
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I speculate that music is particularly susceptible to revealing the contradictions between practice and thought in gendered respects because it has anabstractquality.
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Theabstractqualityis always difficult to define in print.
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Which reveals theabstractqualityof something that is invisible and search for the essence from those invisible qualities.
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Often the addressee is a personifiedabstractqualityor inanimate object.
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Theabstractqualityof the prints enhanced the creative possibilities of their re-orientation insofar as they are non-directional and geometrically inter-related.
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Popes work from the 1970s has a powerfulabstractqualitythat is softened by his use of natural materials, chalk and wood.
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Like the word mastema, it is a noun that describes anabstractquality.
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Theabstractqualityof the adolescent's thought at the formal operational level is evident in the adolescent's verbal problem solving ability.
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The subjects themselves - interiors, fragments of architecture and female characters, are treated as still-lives, which gives them anabstractquality.
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An intelligent assistant for conceptual design: informed search using a mapping of abstract qualities to physical form.
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I argue that truth and objectivity, like authenticity, are not absolute or abstract qualities towards which we strive.
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Wolski's latest work conserves itsabstractqualitybut subtly reveals the presence of the human form.
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Yes, and contemporary in the sense of trying to find abstract qualities.
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From the workshops one could conclude that stakeholders had a hard time relating themselves to such abstract qualities as vitality, sense, fit, access and control.
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Patricia was also drawn to music's abstract qualities and how it could be used as an escape.
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