abstraction
noun
Origin of abstraction
Related Words for abstraction
remoteness, contemplation, reflection, reverie, thinking, absorption, aloofness, detachment, engrossment, musing, trance, consideration, cogitation, preoccupation, brooding, entrancement, pensiveness, pondering, reflectingExamples from the Web for abstraction
Contemporary Examples of abstraction
It frustrated her to hear other students discussing death as an abstraction, subject to simple moral rules.
It is this kind of abstraction that leads to more mythology, more heroic narratives, more undertones of patriotic martyrdom.
In the many portraits, Picasso oscillates between naturalism and abstraction in his portraits of Jacqueline.
Democrats have to stop allowing Republicans to define the election as an up or down vote on an abstraction called Obamacare.
Only someone already painfully unable to deal with abstraction would draw such a suicidal conclusion.
Historical Examples of abstraction
When Lester returned, he saw her standing by his desk, lost in an abstraction of grief.
The Coryston FamilyMrs. Humphry Ward
The latter was a curious example of what I have described as abstraction of color.
Modern Painters Volume II (of V)John Ruskin
And the great aim of education is the cultivation of the habit of abstraction.
The RepublicPlato
This abstraction is the far-off heaven on which the eye of the mind is fixed in fond amazement.
SymposiumPlato
Another says, 'No, not fire in the abstract, but the abstraction of heat in the fire.'
CratylusPlato