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Abstentions
- noun - refusal to vote
- the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
Abstentious
- adjective - self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious"
Abstinences
- noun - act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
- restraint, forebearance
- the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
Abstracters
- noun - one who makes abstracts or summarizes information
Abstracting
- verb - consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance; "Let's abstract away from this particular example"
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
Abstraction
- noun - a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- an abstract painting
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
Abstractive
- adjective - of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting; "abstractive analysis"
Abstractors
- noun - one who makes abstracts or summarizes information
Acatalectic
- adjective - (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables
- (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot