abstraction




abstraction - noun

  • a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
  • the act of withdrawing or removing something
  • the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
  • an abstract painting
  • preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
  • a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
  • abstraction - thesaurus

    abstract   abstractedness   generalisation British English spelling   generalization American English spelling