abstraction

abstraction is a 11-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
2. adjective. 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.
3. adjective. An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
4. adjective. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.
5. adjective. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
6. adjective. The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
7. adjective. A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
8. noun. a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
9. noun. the act of withdrawing or removing something
10. noun. an abstract painting
11. noun. preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else

    Synonyms: abstractedness

12. noun. the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

    Synonyms: generalisation, generalization

13. noun. a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance

    "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

    Synonyms: abstract

Synonyms

abstractedness, generalisation, generalization, abstract

Common word forms

abstractions, abstractional

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