adjective. Removed or separated from something else.

adjective. Not engaged with what is going on around one; withdrawn or preoccupied.

Refined; exalted: as, “abstracted spiritual love,” Donne.

Difficult; abstruse; abstract. Johnson.

Absent in mind; absorbed; inattentive to immediate surroundings.

Synonyms Absent, Inattentive, Abstracted, etc. See absent.

adjective. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.

adjective. Separated from matter; abstract; ideal.

adjective. Abstract; abstruse; difficult.

adjective. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of abstract.

adjective. lost in thought; showing preoccupation

"What caused credit to freeze as the TED spread (which should be about 50) went up to nearly 300 last fall, and is still hovering near 100, is the leveraged speculation that pervaded every form of financial transaction — ALL of it abstracted from the actual production of stuff … like houses, which have a value in themselves."

inattentive  

abstractedly  abstractedness  

abbreviated  abridged  absent  absentminded  absorbed  

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