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発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /æbˈstɹæk.ʃən.əst/

形容詞

abstractionist (comparative more abstractionist, superlative most abstractionist)

1. Related or tending to abstractionism, particularly art.

名詞

abstractionist (複数形 abstractionists)

1. An idealist. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]^[1]
   • 1844, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “Nominalist and Realist”, in Essays, Second Series:

     She punishes abstractionists, and will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.

   • 1850, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “Montaigne; or, the Skeptic”, in Representative Men:

     If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain,—they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme, built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.

   • 1913, Adams, Charles Francis, ’Tis Sixty Years Since, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 15:

     In this all-important respect I do not hesitate to say we theorists and abstractionists of the North, throughout that long anti-slavery discussion which ended with the 1861 dash of arms, were thoroughly wrong.

2. Someone who supports or creates abstract art.

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