abstraction

1. 1.

   a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance

   “he loved her only in the abstract--not in person”

   Synonymsabstract

   Broaderconcept

   Narrowerrightabsoluteteacherthing
2. 2.

   the act of withdrawing or removing something

   Broaderremoval
3. 3.

   the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

   Synonymsgeneralizationgeneralisation

   Broadertheorization
4. 4.

   an abstract painting

   Broaderpainting
5. 5.

   preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else

   Synonymsabstractedness

   Broaderpreoccupation

   Narrowerreverie
6. 6.

   a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

   Synonymsabstract entity

   Broaderentity

   Narrowerpsychological featureattributegrouprelationcommunicationmeasureotherworldset

Other forms of abstraction

plural

abstractions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abstraction

What does abstraction mean?

abstraction means "a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abstraction?

abstraction has 3 syllables: ab-strac-tion. The stress falls on "strac". In IPA it is /æbˈstɹækʃən/.

What is another word for abstraction?

Close synonyms include abstract, generalization, generalisation, abstractedness, abstract entity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abstraction a common word?

abstraction is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with abstraction?

2 words rhyme with abstraction. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.