absolutes
- 1Plural of absolute.
Philosophers have long argued over whether any moral absolutes truly exist.
He treated his own preferences as absolutes, refusing to bend on the smallest detail.
Note
A plural that only some meanings of absolute will take. Moral and philosophical absolutes are countable principles, held one against another. Perfumers also count their absolutes: concentrated flower oils, each an alcoholic extract of a concrete. The capitalized Absolute, meaning the whole of reality or God, names something single by its very nature, so it rarely appears in the plural.
absolutes is a form of absolute
absolute, noun: Something that exists or holds independent of other standards or conditions; that which is universally valid and not relative or qualified. Full entry
- Forms
- absoluteabsolutes plural
- Spelling
- absolute → absolutes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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