relating to or characteristic of abstraction; concerning abstract ideas or the process of abstracting.
From abstraction + -al adjective suffix. Emerged in academic usage to describe processes and concepts centered on abstraction.
This word became popular in art criticism around 1910-1920 when critics needed to describe the revolutionary 'abstractional movement' in painting where artists abandoned recognizable objects.
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