Definition:
- (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
- (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.
- (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
- (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.
- (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
- (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
Compare abstraction with other words:
abstraction vs. problem
abstraction vs. summarize
abstraction vs. analysis
abstraction vs. objectivation
abstraction vs. classification
abstraction vs. tiger
abstraction vs. compendium
abstraction vs. generality
abstraction vs. generalization
abstraction vs. mobile
abstraction vs. concept
abstraction vs. closure
abstraction vs. principle
abstraction vs. conception
abstraction vs. personification
abstraction vs. embodiment
abstraction vs. realm
abstraction vs. child
abstraction vs. abstractive
abstraction vs. specialization
abstraction vs. engineered
abstraction vs. inattention
abstraction vs. theoretical
absorption vs. abstraction
abstraction vs. notion
abstraction vs. recluse
abstraction vs. purloining
abstraction vs. worldly
abstraction vs. surreptitiously
abstraction vs. withdrawing
abstraction vs. withdrawal
abstracting vs. abstraction
abstract vs. abstraction
absence vs. abstraction
abstraction vs. encapsulation
abstraction vs. idealization
absorbed vs. abstraction
abstraction vs. abstractionist
abstraction vs. abstractional