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existing as an idea in English:

1. abstract abstract


To him, hunger was an abstract concept; he always had enough to eat.
I have difficulty understanding abstract modern art, especially Mondrian.
Try to abstract the key arguments from the article.
This is an abstract image
They are interested in abstract reasoning.
Goodness is abstract, a kind act is concrete.
Critics may argue that all the foregoing characterizations are very abstract.
'-osity' is an abstract noun word ending created from the ending of an '-ous' adjective.
The idea of happiness is extremely abstract.
Can you abstract a key point of this presentation?
Was she a figurative or abstract artist?
We may talk of beautiful things but beauty itself is abstract.
Love is an abstract idea – it isn’t something you can see or touch.
A lot of abstract painting uses harsh shapes and most people do not like it.
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.

English word "existing as an idea"(abstract) occurs in sets:

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