An abstraction is something nonspecific, a concept that isn't concrete. It can also refer to the state of mind in which a person is not paying attention to something but is lost in thought or daydreaming.
The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
Noun
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
Noun
the act of withdrawing or removing something
Noun
an abstract painting
Noun
preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
Noun
the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
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a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"
a.
The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or
the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
a.
The act process of leaving out of consideration one or
more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others;
analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself,
or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the
act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness,
softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.
a.
An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical
nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
a.
A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as,
a hermit's abstraction.
a.
Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present
objects.
a.
The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of
the property of another; purloining.
a.
A separation of volatile parts by the act of
distillation.
Abstraction
A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community.2.
Abstraction is no positive act: it is simply the negative of attention.3.
The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
Usage Examples
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
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Other Usage ExamplesAbstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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