abstraction
Meanings
noun
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
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From Middle English abstraccyone; either from Middle French abstraction or from Medieval Latin abstrāctiō (“separation”), from Latin abstrahō (“draw away”). Equivalent to abstract + -ion.
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