absolutes

as inlimit

Synonyms for absolutes

noun greatest extent

Antonyms for absolutes

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "unrestricted; complete, perfect;" also "not relative to something else" (mid-15c.), from Middle French absolut (14c., Old French asolu, Modern French absolu), from Latin absolutus, past participle of absolvere "to set free, make separate" (see absolve).

Most of the current senses also were in the Latin word. Sense evolution was "detached, disengaged," thus "perfect, pure." Meaning "despotic" (1610s) is from notion of "absolute in position." Absolute monarchy is recorded from 1735 (absolute king is recorded from 1610s); scientific absolute magnitude (1902), absolute value (1907) are from early 20c. In metaphysics, the absolute "that which is absolute" is from 1809.

Example Sentences for absolutes

It would be the colourless dream of an immobile plurality of absolutes.

Whosen is obviously the offspring of the other absolutes in n.

So by its very nature it belongs to the class of the absolutes.

In other words we act as if those principles were absolutes, whether we can justify it logically or not.

As we have seen, he dealt in absolutes: either power was given to an unlimited extent or it was withheld altogether.

The ratio of exchange is relative, but there must be absolutes behind relations.

For any philosophy which is not consistently experimental will always traffic in absolutes no matter in how disguised a form.

Whether a philosophy of absolutes is theoretically sound or unsound is none of my present concern.

It is of course impossible to probe the Two Absolutes, or the wonderful marriage which takes place between them.

He only concerns himself with absolutes—the eternal elements of human life and the immutable tides of human destiny.