Definitions for abstraction

abstraction ab·strac·tion

Spelling: [ab-strak-shuh n]
IPA: /æbˈstræk ʃən/

Abstraction is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 1146 anagrams from letters in abstraction (aabcinorstt).

Definitions for abstraction

noun

  1. an abstract or general idea or term.
  2. the act of considering something as a general quality or characteristic, apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances.
  3. an impractical idea; something visionary and unrealistic.
  4. the act of taking away or separating; withdrawal:
  5. secret removal, especially theft.
  6. absent-mindedness; inattention; mental absorption.
  7. Fine Arts. the abstract qualities or characteristics of a work of art. a work of art, especially a nonrepresentational one, stressing formal relationships.

Origin of abstraction

1540-50; Late Latin abstractiōn- (stem of abstractiō) separation. See abstract, -ion

Examples for abstraction

Democrats have to stop allowing Republicans to define the election as an up or down vote on an abstraction called Obamacare.

This abstraction is the far-off heaven on which the eye of the mind is fixed in fond amazement.

Another says, 'No, not fire in the abstract, but the abstraction of heat in the fire.'

The latter was a curious example of what I have described as abstraction of color.

In the many portraits, Picasso oscillates between naturalism and abstraction in his portraits of Jacqueline.

Only someone already painfully unable to deal with abstraction would draw such a suicidal conclusion.

It is this kind of abstraction that leads to more mythology, more heroic narratives, more undertones of patriotic martyrdom.

When Lester returned, he saw her standing by his desk, lost in an abstraction of grief.

It frustrated her to hear other students discussing death as an abstraction, subject to simple moral rules.

And the great aim of education is the cultivation of the habit of abstraction.

Word Value for abstraction
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Words with friends

18

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