People might describe a successful novel as original, interesting or maybe even breathtaking, but all of these abstract adjectives cannot clearly define what a good novel really is, or even provide arguments to explain why a certain creation is believed to be so.
The book usefully praises "the intellectual virtues of rigour, subtlety and mitigated scepticism", and offers a particularly incisive defence of "abstract" thought – an adjective normally used these days as a term of abuse.
Similarly one could regard "consciousness" as referring to a component or aspect of reality that manifests itself in conscious states and creatures but is more than merely the abstract nominalization of the adjective "conscious" we apply to them.
Due to the stylistic preference of adjectives over abstract nouns, everyday language very often does not even provide us with an abstract noun corresponding to an adjective; in such cases we therefore use the adjective at hand, although we could always easily introduce a corresponding artificial noun into our language.
For instance, the name 'leukopenia' appears as a curated disease for one of the abstracts and while the adjective 'leukopenic' appears in text, the name itself (or any of its synonyms) does not.
I call them "zombie nouns" because they cannibalize active verbs, suck the lifeblood from adjectives and substitute abstract entities for human beings: The proliferation of nominalizations in a discursive formation may be an indication of a tendency toward pomposity and abstraction.
something that is more real than what we can see, more real to me than what I can see". "What I feel close to is abstracting," Mullican says, noting that he prefers abstract as a verb rather than an adjective.
Skinny, usually an adjective, is here turned into an abstract noun, paired with another abstract noun, nothing.
The level of abstraction of language can be detected through the syntactic class of terms, where adjectives are the most abstract class, as for example comparing 'is violent' with 'hurt the victims' [16].
In other words, the required implementation of mapping function of four (4) adjective scales of Makgeolli abstracted and measured from TS-5000z, and in order to verify these brainwaves of panels are used as in Figure 9.
