in abstracto

adverb

in ab·​strac·​to

ˌinəbzˈtrak(ˌ)tō,

-bˈst-

: in or from an abstract point of view : in the abstract

the question could not be settled in abstracto

—Yuen-li-Liang

discovering the problem purely theoretically, in abstracto

—Mathematical Biophysics

Word History

Etymology

Latin, in the abstract

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