Abstract language
noun
vocabulary that signifies a concept, quality, or abstract idea
examples
examples of abstract language include love, success, freedom, good.
historical examples
not by a surgical operation; much less by the use of a foreign language or—what is quite the same thing—of abstract language.
picture-work walter l. (walter lowrie) hervey
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