Abstraction - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |æbˈstrækʃn|  American pronunciation of the word abstraction
Brit.  |əbˈstrækʃ(ə)n|  British pronunciation of the word abstraction

noun

- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance (syn: abstract)
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances (syn: generalization)
- an abstract painting
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else (syn: abstractedness)
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

Extra examples

“Beauty” and “truth” are abstractions.

She gazed out the window in abstraction.

He has fits of abstraction.

He's always talking in abstractions.

She rocked the baby gently, gazing in abstraction at the flickering fire.

Is it worth fighting a big war, in the name of an abstraction like sovereignty?

Andrew noticed her abstraction and asked, "What's bothering you?"

For almost 100 years, artists have experimented with abstraction.

... artists in the group put the emphasis on geometric abstraction rather than images abstracted from nature.

I have the faculty of abstraction to a wonderful degree.

The abstraction is so rarefied as to become fallacious.

Word forms

noun
singular: abstraction
plural: abstractions
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