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