abstraction

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abstractions

1.
(countable, uncountable)The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
2.
(countable, uncountable)A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
a hermit’s abstraction
3.
(countable, uncountable)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 necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
4.
(countable, uncountable)Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
5.
(countable, uncountable)A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
6.
(countable, uncountable)The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
7.
(countable, uncountable)An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
to fight for mere abstractions
8.
(countable, uncountable)Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
9.
(countable, uncountable)(art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
10.
(countable, uncountable)(chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
11.
(countable, uncountable)An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
12.
(countable, uncountable)The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.

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universalization

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concretizationspecializationmentally abstracting concretization

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From Middle English abstraccyone; either from Middle French abstraction or from abstrāctiō (separation), from Latin abstrahō (draw away). Equivalent to abstract + -ion.