English noun: abstraction |
1. | abstraction (cognition) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance |
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| Samples | He loved her only in the abstract--not in person.
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| Synonyms | abstract |
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| Broader (hypernym) | concept, conception, construct |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | absolute, right, teacher, thing |
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2. | abstraction (act) the act of withdrawing or removing something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | remotion, removal |
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3. | abstraction (cognition) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances |
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| Synonyms | generalisation, generalization |
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| Broader (hypernym) | theorisation, theorization |
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4. | abstraction (artifact) an abstract painting |
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| Broader (hypernym) | painting, picture |
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5. | abstraction (cognition) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else |
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| Synonyms | abstractedness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | absorption, engrossment, preoccupancy, preoccupation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | reverie, revery |
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6. | abstraction a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples |
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| Synonyms | abstract entity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | entity |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | amount, attribute, communication, group, grouping, measure, otherworld, psychological feature, quantity, relation, set |
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