Synonyms:
abstraction, abstract
Meaning: a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"
Synonyms:
abstraction
Meaning: the act of withdrawing or removing something
Synonyms:
abstraction, generalization, generalisation
Meaning: the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
Synonyms:
abstraction
Meaning: an abstract painting
Usage examples
We are speaking of a people little capable of abstraction.
Tom noticed the abstraction of his father, and shook his head.
'You alchemists are capable of the utterest abstraction, aren't you?'
PART I. OF IDEAS, THEIR ORIGIN, COMPOSITION, CONNEXION, ABSTRACTION, ETC.
The subject was not raised again, and Captain Blood was left to his idle abstraction.
But it still remains to him but an unapplied abstraction, a mere category of thought, a frame for the All.
But Laploshka listened with the abstraction of the deaf adder, and quickly returned to the subject of the two francs.
His fits of gloomy abstraction and violent bursts of temper had alike vanished, or only prevailed at brief intervals.
We must therefore assign on the part of the intellect some power to make things actually intelligible, by abstraction of the species from material conditions.
Very well; but from this exception we will pass to another, from that to a third, and so on from exceptions to exceptions, until we have reduced the rule to a pure abstraction.