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Definition of Abstraction

Abstraction The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. 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. An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects. The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. Related Definitions: Absence, Absorption, Abstract, Abstracting, Abstraction, Act, Also, An, Analysis, Another, Any, As, Attend, Being, By, Called, Color, Complex, Consideration, Distillation, Existence, Fight, Figure, For, Form, From, Hermit, Idea, Inattention, Is, It, Itself, Leaves, Leaving, Life, Mere, Mind, More, Nature, Notion, Object, Of, One, Or, Out, Own, Part, Particular, Present, Process, Properties, Property, Purloining, Recluse, Separate, Separating, Separation, Size, So, Softness, State, Taking, The, Their, Theoretical, Thus, To, Tree, Use, Virtue, Volatile, When, Whiteness, Withdrawal, Withdrawing, Withdrawn, Worldly

Abstraction Quotations Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. Toni Morrison By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. John Dewey War is an abstraction. Bruce Jackson Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. Paul Cezanne An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. Marshall McLuhan

Abstraction Translations abstraction in Danish is tyveri abstraction in Dutch is abstract begrip, abstractie abstraction in French is inattention, abstraction abstraction in German is Abstraktion {f], Abziehung {f}, Zerstreutheit abstraction in Portuguese is furto abstraction in Swedish is abstraktion

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