abstraction

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.

The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.

The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.

A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.

a hermit’s abstraction

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.