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Abstraction

noun

A concept or idea not associated with any specific instance. Synonym: abstract.

The act of withdrawing or removing something.

The process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances. Synonyms: generalisation, generalization.

An abstract painting.

Preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else. Synonym: abstractedness.

A general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples. Synonym: abstract entity.

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"Abstraction" Quotes from Famous Books

... inquirer may not be that which is considered most fundamental by the experienced man of science; for the success of any physical investigation depends on the judicious selection of what is to be observed as of primary importance, combined with a voluntary abstraction of the mind from those features which, however attractive they appear, we are not yet sufficiently advanced in science to ...

— Five of Maxwell's Papers • James Clerk Maxwell

... while, as every one knows, the sermons I have been provided with in the old stone church have been of a rare and high order, there have, I do acknowledge, been bad moments—little sudden bare spots or streaks of abstraction—and I do not deny that there have been times when I could not help feeling, as I sat listening, like sending around Monday morning to the parsonage—my plumber. One could not help thinking what Dr. —— if he once got started on a plumber like B—— (had had him around ...

— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee

... she grew weary with the fierce heat and arduous toil, and as I in my abstraction continued to make mistakes, but the last straw was the breaking of an old cup which I ...

— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... glanced up from his paper and noted the intent looks bent upon him, and the deep silence. He shook off his abstraction. ...

— The Secret Wireless - or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss

... has brought the world to this pass? Humanity! Humanity, that all-wise, all-virtuous abstraction that needs no light from Heaven. Humanity that was to take the place of God! If ever there was a moment in the history of the world when the futility of this pretension should be apparent it is the present moment. All the ills, all ...

— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster

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