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abstraction
UK /əbˈstɹæk.ʃn̩/ US /æbˈstɹæk.ʃn̩/
noun 5
Collocations
4ADJ.
mere, metaphysical, principal, wrongful
VERB + ABSTRACTION
use
ABSTRACTION + NOUN
computer, wealth
PREP.
from, in, into
Definitions
noun
1
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.
2
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
3
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
4
A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
a hermit’s abstraction
5
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.
Holonym: induction
Abstraction is no positive act: it is simply the negative of attention.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
- abstractedness
noun — the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting c
noun — a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the
Wiktionary02
a hermit’s abstraction
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Holonym: induction
Wiktionary04
The use of abstraction in computer programming allows us to create and understand the behavior of very complex software.
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This is an example of abstraction.
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The exhibit is organized chronologically to show the artist's evolution into abstraction starting in the 1920s.
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