Possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He took upon him that nature which was corrupt, though perfectly abstracted from the corruptions of it. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
The little court-jester had seen the witticisms especially reserved for such wearying weather, received in abstracted silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Apple Tree] Reference
Obviously the flock herd manager will be abstracted from the response Llama team, leaving it shortstaffed and alllowoing the FLM to say “not my remit”. From Wordnik.com. [Llama, Llama. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
"A great day?" repeated little Mrs. Gibson with a puzzled air, quickly recalling her abstracted thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The City of Fire] Reference
She brushed a wisp of red hair from her face as she bent her head to answer Toby, but her expression was abstracted. From Wordnik.com. [All Shall Be Well] Reference
It's related to your definition of "abstracted", but rather turned around. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: The lily knows not why it blossoms in the spring] Reference
Seeing as there are no total saints in politics, and the police and politicians are all "abstracted" from the human race. From Wordnik.com. [Term Limits; Good or Bad] Reference
But in print it becomes a kind of abstracted theater which is more about the display than about the literary texts under discussion. From Wordnik.com. [Criticism: What is life if not a series of lived likes and dislikes] Reference
And it matters what is being "abstracted" and to what degree. From Wordnik.com. [2 Blowhards] Reference
It's an incredibly comfortable song, and perfectly evokes a kind of abstracted infatuation. From Wordnik.com. [Fluxblog] Reference
In this latter case his adorers called it "abstracted," while his enemies qualified it as "ill-bred.". From Wordnik.com. [Life at High Tide] Reference
In reality, they were also probably a kind of abstracted blueprint of the work she's doing today - though she couldn't have known it then. From Wordnik.com. [Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories] Reference
"I'm trying to find out," was the abstracted reply. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
He liked his nature refined, constrained and abstracted. From Wordnik.com. [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference
The words (worlds) have become abstracted through contempt?. From Wordnik.com. [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference
Ned noticed that Tom had an abstracted and preoccupied air. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
He is strangely abstracted, scarce a word escapes his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
It did not amount to moroseness; he was preoccupied, and his mind abstracted. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
China would be without her Confucius; or the Arabic world, with Mahomet abstracted. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
They played two or three games, which the General won, as Camors was very abstracted. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
After separating from the Prince, she returned, silent and abstracted, with Vogotzine. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Yes, Promises Written in Water is purely exasperating and abstracted to the nth degree. From Wordnik.com. [Promises Written in Water] Reference
You're fierce abstracted, who knows what kind of world half you imagine yourselves live in. From Wordnik.com. [I A Dog] Reference
Her mind saw things abstracted inside a frame — always focusing on what needed next to be photographed. From Wordnik.com. [Backwards] Reference
Viewed close up, the work is a messy, abstracted topography reminiscent of Anselm Kiefer's mutant surfaces. From Wordnik.com. [ArtScene: This Week's Top Exhibitions in the Western U.S. (August 17-21, 2010)] Reference
It calls attention to the fact that ethics is a discipline which has no significance abstracted from the nature of man. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
So abstracted and calm did she appear, that it might have been supposed her eyes looked on while her mind was far away. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
We're the only real thing left in a world that has abstracted itself so many times that artifice becomes the achievement. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart Jar] Reference
He had said all this in the gentlest of voices with unalterable coolness, and even with somewhat of an abstracted manner. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For the fiery and lucid directness of Sappho, if her note of personal lyricism is abstracted, is seen to be an element of. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
After him, cautiously, went Tim O'Neill, and abstracted his notes from his pocket, substituting for them a spurious copy. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
We may criticise a community as we criticise an individual man even when he is taken as abstracted from his social setting. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Now starting, again abstracted, he is capable of responding for a moment only, as the attendant offers him his nourishment. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Sir Alister paused for a few moments, toying with his cigar in an abstracted manner, then continued in the same clear, even voice. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
I moved towards the bed -- most unwillingly -- and held out to him the packet of letters which I had abstracted from the little drawer. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
In "Goldfish and Pallette" the interior has been abstracted: purged of descriptive details like many other Matisse canvasses of the period. From Wordnik.com. [John Seed: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish] Reference
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