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What is the adverb for abstractions?

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abstractly
  1. In an abstract way or manner
  2. separately; absolutely [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Nearby trees and other bits of greenery are rendered abstractly, seeming stylized and out of place.”
      “Then again, we may have no license to read the work any way but abstractly, so heavy in paint and autography is it.”
      “We tend to become either pedantically descriptive or abstractly emotive, or both.”
abstractedly
  1. In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]
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  3. Examples:
    1. “While everyone else engages in some form of inward or outward dialogue, they stare abstractedly into space, oblivious to their surroundings.”
      “Suffused with a post-Romantic melancholy, it seems to wander abstractedly through a softly glowing mist.”
      “As Nelson abstractedly went over some of the myriad of reports that covered his desk, the intercom on his desk interrupted him.”
abstractively
  1. (now rare) In an abstract manner; in the abstract. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
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