A reference to all conversation, writing, and argument that bases itself on theoretical principles, positions, political persuasions, on statistics devoid of the heart, voice, or poetry, or ideology rather than experience: "The essay was an abstistic model of heartless ideology and statistics."

"The word abstistic comes from abstract, meaning 'disembodied, divorced from being perceived by the senses or the mind or being handled or touched or felt' + statistic, 'facts that describe a situation'."