See Also: epistemophilia(medicine)

abstractive (iou) and epistemophilia (medicine)


abstractive (iou)



abstractive adjective. LME.
[medieval Latin abstractivus, from Latin abstract-: see ABSTRACT verb, -IVE.]
Grammar. Of a noun: abstract. Only in LME.
Of abstracting character or tendency (in senses 1, 4, 5 of ABSTRACT verb). L15.
abstractively adverb (long rare) in an abstract manner, in the abstract E17.

epistemophilia (medicine)


epistemophilia
Love, especially excessive, of knowledge.

Origin: G. Episteme, knowledge, + philos, fond