abstractionist

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abstractionist - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Abstractionist \Ab*strac"tion*ist\, n.
     An idealist. --Emerson.
     [1913 Webster]

abstractionist - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  abstractionist
      adj 1: not representing or imitating external reality or the
             objects of nature; "a large abstract painting" [syn:
             abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative,
             nonobjective]
      n 1: a painter of abstract pictures [syn: abstractionist,
           abstract artist]