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abstraction::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | abstractedness |
| Type of | absorption, engrossment, preoccupancy, preoccupation |
| Has types | revery, reverie |
abstraction::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | generalisation, generalization |
| Type of | theorization, theorisation |
| Derivation | abstract |
abstraction::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | abstract entity |
| Type of | entity |
| Has types | amount, group, grouping, measure, otherworld, psychological feature, quantity, relation, set, communication, attribute |
| Derivation | abstract |
Examples of abstraction
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Instead, like all abstraction, it acts as a blank canvas for us to project onto.
From the washingtonpost.com
The transformation of Web images to abstraction speaks to the idea of discovery.
From the dispatch.com
Skillfully crafted though these motets are, they never rely on mere abstraction.
From the ocregister.com
A pal of Picasso and fan of Cezanne, he helped move painting toward abstraction.
From the bloomberg.com
She now thinks of her brother not as an abstraction but rather as a real person.
From the nytimes.com
And it was apart from the world in its abstraction and its search for absolutes.
From the independent.co.uk
With his Fauvist color and drawing Matisse comes very close to pure abstraction.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The material choice and interior colour theme is Owen's abstraction of a forest.
From the smh.com.au
He had turned to the excessive discipline that he believed abstraction demanded.
From the time.com
- A concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"
- The act of withdrawing or removing something
- The process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- An abstract painting
- Abstractedness: preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
- A general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- Abstraction is a conceptual process by which higher, less real concepts are derived from the usage and classification of literal (ie. "real" or "concrete") concepts. ...
- In computer science, the mechanism and practice of abstraction reduces and factors out details so that one can focus on a few concepts at a time.
- In linguistics, object abstraction or simply abstraction is a concept wherein terms for objects become used for more abstract concepts, developing in some languages into further abstractions such as verbs and grammatical words (grammaticalisation). ...
