Abstractionist

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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