drawing away or separating; having the power to abstract or withdraw.
From Latin abstrahens, present participle of abstrahere 'to draw away.' A rare, highly technical term from academic philosophical discourse.
This ultra-rare word ('abstrahent') appears almost exclusively in 18th-century philosophical texts and shows how learned writers created specialized vocabulary—most educated people today have never encountered it despite it being perfectly grammatical Latin-derived English.
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