abstraction

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.