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/ɐbstɹˈækʃən/
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[ US /æbˈstɹækʃən/ ]
[ US /æbˈstɹækʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
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a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
he loved her only in the abstract--not in person - the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- an abstract painting
How To Use abstraction In A Sentence
- There is still a level of abstraction (you're manipulating something removed from the screen) but it's more concretized now. MIND MELD: The Apple iPad: Sizzle or Fizzle?
- He comes to be disgusted by all abstractions and ideas.
- Leonardo da Vinci was not only one of the earliest European abstractionist, but also a sculptor, an architect , and an engineer.
- Then it struck her that he was in a state of deep abstraction. COME AND BE KILLED
- If I reason, Every student who can concentrate his attention can learn quickly, George Marston has a notable power of concentration, Therefore George Marston can learn quickly, I again break up the abstraction _student_, and the concrete fact The Making of Arguments
- Painted in 1953, it dates from the period during which Barns-Graham, originally a figurative painter, was reconciling hard-edged geometrical abstraction with a love of landscape.
- I trust his sincerity, but not his understanding of the abstractions which underpin good, stickable, co-ordinated policy. UNCoRRELATED
- Duty is no longer determined in abstraction from the consequences or vice-versa.
- I think “it is not an abstraction that animates them” could actually be a pretty revealing sentence, and not merely a bizarre self-contradiction. Matthew Yglesias » Peretz: Obama Needs “Harsh View of Islam Today”
- Her recent acrylic abstractions are boldly graphic with radiant colors in dynamic geometric compositions.
